AFFECTIVE FORECASTING 351 time course of their emotions would be unknown. Wilson, Wheatley, Meyers, Gilbert, and Axsom (2000), for example, found that college sports fans overestimated how happy they would be the day after their favorite team won a football game.
This chapter reviews the short- and long-term ef-. fects and beneï¬ ts of cardiorespiratory endurance exer-. cise. It then describes several tests that are commonly. used to assess cardiorespiratory ï¬ tness.
The âNASM Essentials of Personal Fitness Trainingâ describes several methods for estimating cardiorespiratory fitness. In the three-minute step test, you step up and down on a step of a predetermined height at a pace set by a metronome for three minutes. Then your heart rate is measured for a specified time. This recovery heart rate is used to estimate your level of cardiorespiratory fitness. A lower heart rate means a higher cardiorespiratory endurance level.