How do humans control physiological strain during strenuous endurance exercise?

<h4>Background</h4>Distance running performance is a viable model of human locomotion.<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>To evaluate the physiologic strain during competitions ranging from 5-100 km, we evaluated heart rate (HR) records of competitive runners (n = 211). We...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:952a04e7952840239c3ece45ccc055ac2021-11-25T06:11:13ZHow do humans control physiological strain during strenuous endurance exercise?1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0002943https://doaj.org/article/952a04e7952840239c3ece45ccc055ac2008-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18698405/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203<h4>Background</h4>Distance running performance is a viable model of human locomotion.<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>To evaluate the physiologic strain during competitions ranging from 5-100 km, we evaluated heart rate (HR) records of competitive runners (n = 211). We found evidence that: 1) physiologic strain (% of maximum HR (%HRmax)) increased in proportional manner relative to distance completed, and was regulated by variations in running pace; 2) the %HRmax achieved decreased with relative distance; 3) slower runners had similar %HRmax response within a racing distance compared to faster runners, and despite differences in pace, the profile of %HRmax during a race was very similar in runners of differing ability; and 4) in cases where there was a discontinuity in the running performance, there was evidence that physiologic effort was maintained for some time even after the pace had decreased.<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>The overall results suggest that athletes are actively regulating their relative physiologic strain during competition, although there is evidence of poor regulation in the case of competitive failures.Jonathan Esteve-LanaoAlejandro LuciaAlejandro LuciaJos J deKoningCarl FosterPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 3, Iss 8, p e2943 (2008)
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Jonathan Esteve-Lanao
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Alejandro Lucia
Jos J deKoning
Carl Foster
How do humans control physiological strain during strenuous endurance exercise?
description <h4>Background</h4>Distance running performance is a viable model of human locomotion.<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>To evaluate the physiologic strain during competitions ranging from 5-100 km, we evaluated heart rate (HR) records of competitive runners (n = 211). We found evidence that: 1) physiologic strain (% of maximum HR (%HRmax)) increased in proportional manner relative to distance completed, and was regulated by variations in running pace; 2) the %HRmax achieved decreased with relative distance; 3) slower runners had similar %HRmax response within a racing distance compared to faster runners, and despite differences in pace, the profile of %HRmax during a race was very similar in runners of differing ability; and 4) in cases where there was a discontinuity in the running performance, there was evidence that physiologic effort was maintained for some time even after the pace had decreased.<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>The overall results suggest that athletes are actively regulating their relative physiologic strain during competition, although there is evidence of poor regulation in the case of competitive failures.
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title How do humans control physiological strain during strenuous endurance exercise?
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