ArticleSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2013
Pacing and awareness: brain regulation of physical activity.
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50 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Pacing Profiles in Half-Marathon and Marathon Running Based on Performance Level, Sex, and Age: A Narrative Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
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- Energy Availability as a Neurocognitive Regulator of Endurance Performance: Integrating Metabolic, Perceptual, and Decision-Making Mechanisms-A Narrative Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The impact of advanced footwear technology on running performance and pacing in world marathon majors.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Influence of deception of task duration on the sex-specific physiological responses to RPE-clamp cycle ergometry.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- Time Estimation Following an Exhaustive Exercise.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- The perception of time is slowed in response to exercise, an effect not further compounded by competitors: behavioral implications for exercise and health.Brain and behavior · 2024Article
- The Effects of Physical and Mental Fatigue on Time Perception.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Workout at a virtual gym: Surrounding avatar's motion speed and exercise intensity effect on the user's time perception.PloS one · 2024Article
- Yoga and massage are associated with small experimental placebo effects in chronic orofacial pain.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2023Article
- Performance Kinetics During Repeated Sprints is Influenced by Knowledge of Task Endpoint and Associated Peripheral Fatigue.International journal of exercise science · 2023Article
- Similar effect of running on visual and auditory time perception in the ranges of milliseconds and seconds.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Consistency of pacing profile according to performance level in three different editions of the Chicago, London, and Tokyo marathons.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The Problem of Effort Distribution in Heavy Glycolytic Trials with Special Reference to the 400 m Dash in Track and Field.Biology · 2022Review
- How physical activity and passion color the passage of time: A response with ultra-trail runners.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Empathetic Factors and Influences on Physical Performance: A Topical Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Practical and Clinical Approaches Using Pacing to Improve Selfregulation in Special Populations such as Children and People with Mental Health or Learning Disabilities.Journal of rehabilitation medicine. Clinical communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
The aim of this current opinion article is to provide a contemporary perspective on the role of brain regulatory control of paced performances in response to exercise challenges. There has been considerable recent conjecture as to the role of the brain during exercise, and it is now broadly accepted that fatigue does not occur without brain involvement and that all voluntary activity is likely to be paced at some level by the brain according to individualised priorities and knowledge of personal capabilities. This article examines the role of pacing in managing and distributing effort to successfully accomplish physical tasks, while extending existing theories on the role of the brain as a central controller of performance. The opinion proposed in this article is that a central regulator operates to control exercise performance but achieves this without the requirement of an intelligent central governor located in the subconscious brain. It seems likely that brain regulation operates at different levels of awareness, such that minor homeostatic challenges are addressed automatically without conscious awareness, while larger metabolic disturbances attract conscious awareness and evoke a behavioural response. This supports the view that the brain regulates exercise performance but that the interpretation of the mechanisms underlying this effect have not yet been fully elucidated.
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