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Highlights • Affective responses to high-velocity, low-load and low-velocity, high-load resistance exercise performed once or twice weekly were similar in a group of physically active older adults.• The low-velocity, high-load conditions were perceived to have a greater workload and to be more fatiguing, but this did not negatively impact enjoyment.• These findings suggest that exercise professionals may use greater intensities and volumes of resistance exercise in physically active older adults, with no negative impact on enjoyment or affective responses.• Because participants in the present study were already physically active, caution should be taken when applying these findings to more sedentary older adults.