ArticleEuropean journal of applied physiology2017
Separate and combined effects of exposure to heat stress and mental fatigue on endurance exercise capacity in the heat.
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- Temporal Robustness of Mental Fatigue Susceptibility: A One-Year Follow-up Study.Sports medicine - open · 2026Article
- Identification and prioritization of physiological and perceptual indicators for heat stress assessment in Iranian labor-intensive industries using Fuzzy Delphi and Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process methods.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Mental fatigue accompanied by whole-body surface cooling is associated with the impairment of subsequent endurance exercise performance.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Current Practices for Mental Fatigue Quantification and Induction in Movement Science: Introducing the SPeCIFY Guidelines.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Review
- Cognitive and athletic performances in tropical climate: The effect of time of day.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2025Article
- Elevated core temperature in addition to mental fatigue impairs aerobic exercise capacity in highly trained athletes in the heat.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2024Article
- Cardiovascular responses to orthostasis during a simulated 3-day heatwave.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Bibliometric analysis of the effects of mental fatigue on athletic performance from 2001 to 2021.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Mental Fatigue Might Be Not So Bad for Exercise Performance After All: A Systematic Review and Bias-Sensitive Meta-Analysis.Journal of cognition · 2020Review
- Persistence of Mental Fatigue on Motor Control.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Sports and environmental temperature: From warming-up to heating-up.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2017Review
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Abstract
purposeThis study investigated the effects of exposure to pre-exercise heat stress and mental fatigue on endurance exercise capacity in a hot environment.
methodsEight volunteers completed four cycle exercise trials at 80% maximum oxygen uptake until exhaustion in an environmental chamber maintained at 30 °C and 50% relative humidity. The four trials required them to complete a 90 min pre-exercise routine of either a seated rest (CON), a prolonged demanding cognitive task to induce mental fatigue (MF), warm water immersion at 40 °C during the last 30 min to induce increasing core temperature (WI), or a prolonged demanding cognitive task and warm water immersion at 40 °C during the last 30 min (MF + WI).
resultsCore temperature when starting exercise was higher following warm water immersion (~38 °C; WI and MF + WI) than with no water immersion (~36.8 °C; CON and MF, P < 0.001). Self-reported mental fatigue when commencing exercise was higher following cognitive task (MF and MF + WI) than with no cognitive task (CON and WI; P < 0.05). Exercise time to exhaustion was reduced by warm water immersion (P < 0.001) and cognitive task (P < 0.05). Compared with CON (18 ± 7 min), exercise duration reduced 0.8, 26.6 and 46.3% in MF (17 ± 7 min), WI (12 ± 5 min) and MF + WI (9 ± 3 min), respectively.
conclusionsThis study demonstrates that endurance exercise capacity in a hot environment is impaired by either exposure to pre-exercise heat stress or mental fatigue, and this response is synergistically increased during combined exposure to them.
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