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ReviewExperimental physiology2025

Durability as an index of endurance exercise performance: Methodological considerations.

Ben Hunter, Ed Maunder, Andrew M Jones, Gabriele Gallo, Daniel Muniz-Pumares

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Review in Experimental physiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ben HunterSchool of Human Sciences, London Metropolitan University, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4190-4543
Ed MaunderSports Performance Research Institute New Zealand, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2329-959X
Andrew M JonesDepartment of Public Health and Sport Sciences, University of Exeter Medical School, St Luke's Campus, Exeter, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2082-1709
Gabriele GalloUniversità degli Studi di Pavia, Voghera, Lombardy, Italy.
Daniel Muniz-PumaresSchool of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6748-9870

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Endurance athletes routinely complete physiological assessments to predict performance, inform training programmes and monitor subsequent training adaptations. This profiling is typically performed with the athlete in a 'fresh' (i.e., rested) condition, but physiological profiling variables deteriorate during prolonged exercise. Durability has been defined as the resilience to the deterioration of physiological variables and performance during or following prolonged exercise. Herein, we review the current approaches to measure durability. The construction of the fatiguing protocol affects durability profiles, with greater relative intensity and duration resulting in more marked deterioration of baseline measures. The design of durability assessments should control for factors that could impact durability measurements, such as nutrition and environmental characteristics, to ensure that outcomes are repeatable and can be compared between athletes or over time in the same athlete. The selection of these parameters should be based on the proposed research question or applied context and take account of the training status of the athlete. Accordingly, this review highlights important considerations to ensure that protocols for profiling durability in research and applied practice are appropriate.

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Athletic PerformanceExercisePhysical EnduranceAdaptation, PhysiologicalAthletesHumansMuscle Fatigueendurance performanceexercise capacityfatigue resistance

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PMID40150840
PMCPMC12576026

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