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Gerard E. McMahon, Gladys L. Onambélé-Pearson\* , Christopher I. Morse, Adrian M. Burden and Keith Winwood

\*Address all correspondence to: g.pearson@mmu.ac.uk

Institute for Performance Research, Department of Exercise & Sport Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Crewe, UK

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