ArticleFrontiers in physiology2016
Are There Critical Fatigue Thresholds? Aggregated vs. Individual Data.
Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Closed-Loop Neuromodulation for Brain Fatigue: From Real-Time Biomarkers to Adaptive Intervention.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- The Effects of Anchor Schemes on Performance Fatigability, Neuromuscular Responses and the Perceived Sensations That Contributed to Task Termination.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2023Article
- Similar performance fatigability and neuromuscular responses following sustained bilateral tasks above and below critical force.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Article
- Quantification of Neuromuscular Fatigue: What Do We Do Wrong and Why?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Article
- Critical Peripheral Fatigue Thresholds Among Different Force-Velocity Conditions: An Individual-Based Model Approach.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
- A phenomenological model of the time course of maximal voluntary isometric contraction force for optimization of complex loading schemes.European journal of applied physiology · 2018Article
- Neuromuscular Fatigue at Task Failure and During Immediate Recovery after Isometric Knee Extension Trials.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Natural antioxidants in prevention of accelerated ageing: a departure from conventional paradigms required.Journal of physiology and biochemistry · 2018Review
- Bridging Exercise Science, Cognitive Psychology, and Medical Practice: Is "Cognitive Fatigue" a Remake of "The Emperor's New Clothes"?Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- No Critical Peripheral Fatigue Threshold during Intermittent Isometric Time to Task Failure Test with the Knee Extensors.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
The mechanisms underlying task failure from fatiguing physical efforts have been the focus of many studies without reaching consensus. An attractive but debated model explains effort termination with a critical peripheral fatigue threshold. Upon reaching this threshold, feedback from sensory afferents would trigger task disengagement from open-ended tasks or a reduction of exercise intensity of closed-ended tasks. Alternatively, the extant literature also appears compatible with a more global critical threshold of loss of maximal voluntary contraction force. Indeed, maximal voluntary contraction force loss from fatiguing exercise realized at a given intensity appears rather consistent between different studies. However, when looking at individual data, the similar maximal force losses observed between different tasks performed at similar intensities might just be an "artifact" of data aggregation. It would then seem possible that such a difference observed between individual and aggregated data also applies to other models previously proposed to explain task failure from fatiguing physical efforts. We therefore suggest that one should be cautious when trying to infer models that try to explain individual behavior from aggregated data.
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