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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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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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...
View ArticleHeatstroke: 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...
View ArticleHeat 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...
View ArticleHeatstroke 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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleRoss 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...
View ArticleDear 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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