Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Fatigue, performance, and perceived effort

The Mystery of "Nonlocal" Fatigue

Runner's World

SWEAT SCIENCE Why does arm exercise make your legs feel tired? By alex hutchinson October 24, 2015 "Nonlocal fatigue" is one of those phenomena that seem either completely obvious or totally mystifying, depending on how you look at it. Consider, for example, a recent experiment by Michael Johnson and his colleagues at Nottingham Trent University, whose results appear in the Journal of Applied Physiology. The basic task in the experiment was simple: a cycling test to exhaustion at fixed power, Read the full story