Mechanisms of Exercise-induced Hypoalgesia

Inclusion Criteria: * Males aged between 18 and 30 years * Lack of risks for physical exercise assessed using the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) * Ability to provide written informed consent * Fluency in French * BMI between 17 and 30 Exclusion Criteria: * Regular tobacco use * Not willing or able to abstain from alcohol, recreational drugs, coffee, or tea from 24 hours prior to each experimental session. * Not willing or able to restrain from physical activity \> 24h prior to each experimental session, and to be in a fasted state on the day of each experimental session. * Any neurological, cardio-vascular, respiratory, inflammatory, endocrine, psychiatric, oncological, rheumatological conditions. Such condition could put the participants at risk during maximal exercise testing and/or interfere with pain assessment. * Presence of any medical devices (e.g., cardiac pacemaker) implants or prothesis unless it is beyond discussion that these will not put the subject's safety during the study at risk and will not interfere with the results of the study. * Any chronic pain condition or recent history thereof (i.e. within the preceeding 2 years). * Wounds or skin alteration on testing sites. * Impaired hearing. This would affect ability to detect the control auditory stimuli. * Surgery \< 12 months * Any drug intake in the past 2 weeks including antibiotics, herbal medicines and other remedies except the following drugs that will be allowed up to 48 hours prior…