A sudden flash of insight has challenged my notion of Perceived Effort. For weeks, I had been trying to get ‘my head around’ the role of the motor cortex in the effort required for maintaining running pace, versus no role for a cortex required for the decorticate cat who can still trot once startled into flight. 1, […]
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Attn: Those curious about Exercise Science Here are more questions concerning the factors that limit endurance performance that have ‘popped up in my head’ since the 2010 ACSM annual meeting in Baltimore: How are motor units (MUs) with fast twitch (FT), slow twitch (ST), or other muscle fibers recruited and maybe derecruited during first ten minutes […]
What helps people enjoy exercising? Well, Soundarapandian, Ekkekakis, & Welch (2010) wowed me with a really important answer to this question via an attention getting slide presentation. That happened on Friday, June 4th, at the American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting in Baltimore.
Today posted Part 1 about Kress & Statler 2007 study on Coping with Pain during Cycling. And For The Curious, the Part 1 Post is continued as the First Recent Review “What describes Exertion Pain during cycling?”
nudged and expanded understand how discomfort described