Physical Education A-Level
Prolonged steady-state exercise
What Prolonged steady-state exercise means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Prolonged steady-state exercise
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Exercise that continues at an unchanged intensity, during which cardiovascular drift develops as a gradual change in cardiovascular variables.
Topics that use Prolonged steady-state exercise
- Cardiovascular system (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Affinity for oxygen
- Antagonistic action of the two divisions
- Anticipatory rise
- Autonomic control of heart rate
- Baroreceptors
- Bohr shift during exercise
- Cardiac output
- Cardiac output and oxygen uptake
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