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“Seeing a substantial increase in repetitions without the athletes feeling like they were exerting themselves any harder is a fascinating psychobiological outcome,” Mohamed Nashrudin bin Naharudin, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of sports science at the University of Malaya in Malaysia, said in a statement.
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WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
What other smells may boost performance in the gym. The study’s authors said they don’t think chocolate is the only food with an odor that may help, but said it is pretty universally loved and recognized as a reward. “A person likely needs to find the odor familiar and appealing— or at least not repulsive—to trigger the psychological shift in appetite that’s needed to see a performance boost,” Nashrudin Naharudin said.
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