ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2000
Whole body fatigue and critical power: a physiological interpretation.
Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The limit to exercise tolerance in humans: mind over muscle?European journal of applied physiology · 2010Trial
- Effects of concurrent inspiratory and expiratory muscle training on respiratory and exercise performance in competitive swimmers.European journal of applied physiology · 2005Trial
- Effect of n-3 fatty acids on free tryptophan and exercise fatigue.European journal of applied physiology · 2004Trial
- Effects of Back Pressure on the Feasibility and Tolerability of Laryngeal Diadochokinetic Exercise: A Pilot Study.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2026Article
- Critical Power and Maximal Lactate Steady State in Cycling: "Watts" the Difference?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Review
- Power reserve following ramp-incremental cycling to exhaustion: implications for muscle fatigue and function.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2018Article
- A mathematical model for quantifying training.European journal of applied physiology · 2009Article
- Is fatigue all in your head? A critical review of the central governor model.British journal of sports medicine · 2006Review
- The critical power and related whole-body bioenergetic models.European journal of applied physiology · 2006Review
- Exercise starts and ends in the brain.European journal of applied physiology · 2003Review
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Abstract
Critical power (CP) is a fundamental concept describing fatigue and exhaustion. The main physiological determinant of CP is the ability to utilise oxygen. This in turn is dependent primarily on diffusion distance. During exercise, many different tissue systems must increase their metabolic demand. It is argued that each tissue system, such as cardiac, respiratory and leg muscles, has their own CP. Cardiac muscle has the greatest CP relative to its maximum power because it has the shortest diffusion distances. Respiratory muscle also has a substantially higher relative CP than leg muscle. The higher relative CPs of cardiac and respiratory muscle are due in part to the homeostatic functions these tissues provide. This built in protective design can be disrupted in certain conditions such as hypoxia. During high intensity exercise, fatigue and ensuing exhaustion will occur if any contributing physiological system functions above its CP.
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