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From catastrophe to complexity: a novel model of integrative central neural regulation of effort and fatigue during exercise in humans

Year: 2004

Type: review

Abstract: It is a popular belief that exercise performance is limited by metabolic changes in the exercising muscles, so called peripheral fatigue. Exercise terminates when there is a catastrophic failure of homoeostasis in the exercising muscles. A revolutionary theory is presented that proposes that exercise performance is regulated by the central nervous system specifically to ensure that catastrophic physiological failure does not occur during normal exercise in humans.

Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine

DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2003.009860

Authors: T D Noakes, A St Clair Gibson, E V Lambert

Institutions: Sports Science Institute of South Africa, University of Cape Town

Language: English

Topic: Cardiovascular and exercise physiology

Subfield: Physiology (medical)

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2132013039