1. Brief naps during post-lunch rest: effects on alertness, performance, and autonomic balance

   • Masaya Takahashi
   • Hideki Fukuda
   • Heihachiro Arito

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 93 - 98

2. Autonomic nervous system responses correlate with mental rehearsal in volleyball training

   • R. Roure
   • C. Collet
   • E. Vernet-Maury

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 99 - 108

3. Morphological and functional differences in the elbow extensor muscle between highly trained male and female athletes

   • Y. Ichinose
   • H. Kanehisa
   • T. Fukunaga

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 109 - 114

4. Differentiated ratings of perceived exertion at ventilatory threshold in children and adults

   • Anthony D. Mahon
   • Julie A. Gay
   • Kira Q. Stolen

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 115 - 120

5. Oxygen uptake, heart rate and blood lactate concentration during a normal training session of an aerobic dance class

   • M. De Angelis
   • G. Vinciguerra
   • C. Pacitti

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 121 - 127

6. Effect of 120 days of bed-rest with and without countermeasures on the mechanical properties of the triceps surae muscle in young women

   • Yuri Koryak

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 128 - 135

7. Hindlimb suspension reduces muscle regeneration

   • P. E. Mozdziak
   • Q. Truong
   • E. Schultz

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 136 - 140

8. The effect of lower body positive pressure on the cardiovascular response to exercise in sedentary and endurance-trained persons with paraplegia

   • Roger Kaprielian
   • Michael J. Plyley
   • Jack M. Goodman

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 141 - 147

9. Reduced cardiac stiffness following exercise is associated with preserved myocardial collagen characteristics in the rat

   • Angela J. Woodiwiss
   • Tanja Oosthuyse
   • Gavin R. Norton

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 148 - 154

10. Characterization of a three-phase response in gloved cold-stressed fingers

    • Avraham Shitzer
    • Thomas L. Endrusick
    • Richard R. Gonzalez

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 155 - 162

11. Changes in performance, muscle metabolites, enzymes and fibre types after short sprint training

    • Brian Dawson
    • Martin Fitzsimons
    • Keith Cole

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 163 - 169

12. Effects of interval training at the ventilatory threshold on clinical and cardiorespiratory responses in elderly humans

    • Said Ahmaidi
    • Janick Masse-Biron
    • Christian Prefaut

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 170 - 176

13. Heart rate deflection compared to 4 mmol · l⁻¹ lactate threshold during incremental exercise and to lactate during steady-state exercise on an arm-cranking ergometer in paraplegic athletes

    • Andreas Schmid
    • Martin Huonker
    • Joseph Keul

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 177 - 182

14. The isometric force that induces maximal surface muscle deoxygenation

    • J. F. Kahn
    • J. C. Jouanin
    • H. Monod

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 183 - 187