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adding to the body of evidence is a recent study published in psychology of sport and exercise reviewing what the researchers call the “slope of pleasure” and its effects on remembered pleasure, forecasted pleasure and enjoyment. the researchers from california state university in bakersfield theorized that the optimal slope of pleasure occurred when exercisers experienced a gradual increase and then decrease in effort, versus an ascending (the workout gets harder, with peak effort occurring toward the end of the workout) or descending (the workout ramps up in intensity quickly then eases off to finish easier than it started) slope. the idea was to see whether a less intense start or finish was more enjoyable.
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