ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2013
Physiological and psychological effects of deception on pacing strategy and performance: a review.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 64 citations in OpenAlex.
- Psychological Determinants of Whole-Body Endurance Performance.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015Pooled it
- Pacing strategies during repeated maximal voluntary contractions.European journal of applied physiology · 2014Trial
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- Changes in pacing variation with increasing race duration in ultra-triathlon races.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Self-Paced Endurance Performance and Cerebral Hemodynamics of the Prefrontal Cortex: A Scoping Review of Methodology and Findings.Perceptual and motor skills · 2022Article
- The Problem of Effort Distribution in Heavy Glycolytic Trials with Special Reference to the 400 m Dash in Track and Field.Biology · 2022Review
- The Impact of Individualizing Sodium Bicarbonate Supplementation Strategies on World-Class Rowing Performance.Frontiers in nutrition · 2020Article
- Deception of cycling distance on pacing strategies, perceptual responses, and neural activity.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2019Article
- The influence of knowledge of performance endpoint on pacing strategies, perception of effort, and neural activity during 30-km cycling time trials.Physiological reports · 2018Article
- Menthol: A Fresh Ergogenic Aid for Athletic Performance.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Article
- The Effects of Non-Contingent Feedback on the Incidence of Plateau at V̇OJournal of sports science & medicine · 2017Article
- Differences in Physiological Responses to Interval Training in Cyclists With and Without Interval Training Experience.Journal of human kinetics · 2016Article
- Effect of Environmental and Feedback Interventions on Pacing Profiles in Cycling: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Review
- Can Pacing Be Regulated by Post-Activation Potentiation? Insights from a Self-Paced 30 km Trial in Half-Marathon Runners.PloS one · 2016Article
- Exercise Performance and Corticospinal Excitability during Action Observation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
- Cycling in the Absence of Task-Related Feedback: Effects on Pacing and Performance.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Article
- Improvements in Cycling Time Trial Performance Are Not Sustained Following the Acute Provision of Challenging and Deceptive Feedback.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Article
- Deceptive Manipulation of Competitive Starting Strategies Influences Subsequent Pacing, Physiological Status, and Perceptual Responses during Cycling Time Trials.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Article
- Performance characteristics of long-track speed skaters: a literature review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015Review
- Factors affecting the regulation of pacing: current perspectives.Open access journal of sports medicine · 2014Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The aim of an optimal pacing strategy during exercise is to enhance performance whilst ensuring physiological limits are not surpassed, which has been shown to result in a metabolic reserve at the end of the exercise. There has been debate surrounding the theoretical models that have been proposed to explain how pace is regulated, with more recent research investigating a central control of exercise regulation. Deception has recently emerged as a common, practical approach to manipulate key variables during exercise. There are a number of ways in which deception interventions have been designed, each intending to gain particular insights into pacing behaviour and performance. Deception methodologies can be conceptualised according to a number of dimensions such as deception timing (prior to or during exercise), presentation frequency (blind, discontinuous or continuous) and type of deception (performance, biofeedback or environmental feedback). However, research evidence on the effects of deception has been perplexing and the use of complex designs and varied methodologies makes it difficult to draw any definitive conclusions about how pacing strategy and performance are affected by deception. This review examines existing research in the area of deception and pacing strategies, and provides a critical appraisal of the different methodological approaches used to date. It is hoped that this analysis will inform the direction and methodology of future investigations in this area by addressing the mechanisms through which deception impacts upon performance and by elucidating the potential application of deception techniques in training and competitive settings.
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