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Fatigue and Exercise: Part III

Exercise in the heat: The “off-switch,” the limiting temperature, and the Beijing Olympics We’re back with more on fatigue, and as promised, the strategy we’ll adopt over the next few posts is to look...

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Fatigue and Exercise: Part IV

Exercise in the heat: Predicting the physiological future – African runners outperform white runners in the heat We’re back with Part 4 (or is it 5 or 6? I’ve lost count!) of our Series on Fatigue...

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Fatigue and Exercise: Part V

Anticipatory regulation of exercise in the heat: Discussion continues About a week ago, in our last post of our Series on Fatigue, we looked in some detail at a study by Frank Marino which found that...

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Heatstroke: Some interesting observations

Heatstroke: The reality doesn’t fit with the perception One of the more interesting ways in which we can study physiology (especially during exercise), is to observe it when it fails. Take for example...

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Heat stroke dissected

Continuing on from our post two days ago, we are looking at heatstroke, a condition where the body temperature rises above 41 degrees celsius (this cut-off is somewhat arbitrary, it has to be said, at...

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Heatstroke continued

Yesterday, in our second post on heatstroke, we introduced the concept that the attainment of a body temperature above 41 degrees Celsius is NOT POSSIBLE due solely to environmental conditions, which...

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Top 8 of ’08: Number 6

Number 6 on our Top 8 of ’08 takes us back to Beijing to look a little more closely at Sammy Wanjiru’s remarkable marathon victory in Beijing. If you needed any reminder of it, Wanjiru became Kenya’s...

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Ross speaks: Fatigue and the brain

Anticipatory regulation of exercise Apologies for the delay in posting after my lecture last week at UIC – the Chicago Marathon came and went, and since then, travels have taken too much time to post...

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Dear Sports Scientists: Will drinking fluids keep me cool?

First, if you did not catch the NY Velocity interview with Ross, be sure to—Andy Shen and co do a great job over there and produce some excellent interviews.  Their site is a must read for any serious...

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