Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2013
Effects of isolated locomotor muscle fatigue on pacing and time trial performance.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Dietary interventions interact with the perception of effort and enhance endurance performance: a brief narrative review.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2026Review
- Stretch-shortening cycle exercise produces acute and prolonged impairments on endurance performance: is the peripheral fatigue a single answer?European journal of applied physiology · 2019Article
- The Psychophysiological Regulation of Pacing Behaviour and Performance Fatigability During Long-Distance Running with Locomotor Muscle Fatigue and Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage in Highly Trained Runners.Sports medicine - open · 2018Article
- Modelling perception-action coupling in the phenomenological experience of "hitting the wall" during long-distance running with exercise induced muscle damage in highly trained runners.Sports medicine - open · 2018Article
- The Manipulation of Pace within Endurance Sport.Frontiers in physiology · 2017Review
- Fatigue Induced by Physical and Mental Exertion Increases Perception of Effort and Impairs Subsequent Endurance Performance.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Review
- Thinking and Action: A Cognitive Perspective on Self-Regulation during Endurance Performance.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Article
- Effect of Environmental and Feedback Interventions on Pacing Profiles in Cycling: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Review
- Role of Ratings of Perceived Exertion during Self-Paced Exercise: What are We Actually Measuring?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015Review
- Effect of heat and heat acclimatization on cycling time trial performance and pacing.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2015Article
- Mental fatigue induced by prolonged self-regulation does not exacerbate central fatigue during subsequent whole-body endurance exercise.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2015Article
- The psychobiological model of endurance performance: an effort-based decision-making theory to explain self-paced endurance performance.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2014Article
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Abstract
purposeLocomotor muscle fatigue impairs exercise performance during time to exhaustion tests. However, its effect on self-regulation of power output (pacing) is unknown. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the effects of locomotor muscle fatigue on pacing and time trial performance.
methodsTen healthy recreationally active men completed a 15-min time trial on a cycle ergometer 30 min after undergoing an eccentric fatiguing protocol designed to induce a substantial strength loss in the knee extensor muscles without inducing significant metabolic stress. This fatigue condition was compared with a control condition, using a randomly counterbalanced AB/BA crossover design.
resultsTotal work completed during the 15-min cycling time trial was significantly reduced by 4.8 % in the fatigue condition compared with the control condition. This was caused by a significant reduction in power output. Rating of perceived exertion was significantly higher in the fatigue condition compared with the control condition only during the first 3 min of the time trial. Heart rate and vastus lateralis integrated electromyogram were not significantly different between the two conditions.
conclusionThe results show that participants with fatigued locomotor muscles reduce their pace but do not change their pacing strategy. As a result, there was a significant reduction in time trial performance. As predicted by the psychobiological model of exercise performance, a slower pace may be a behavioral response to compensate for the significant increase in perception of effort induced by locomotor muscle fatigue.
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