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Yesterday's highlight for me from the @TrainingPeaks Endurance Coaching Summit was @SamueleMarcora with his presentation: "Perception of Effort and Endurance Performance".
Here are my notes (a thread).
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Here are my notes (a thread).
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The physiological model suggestions that muscle fatigue causes exhaustion. However, there are doubts:
1) athletes still had a power reserve at exhaustion ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41896455_The_limit_to_exercise_tolerance_in_humans_Mind_over_muscle)
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1) athletes still had a power reserve at exhaustion ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41896455_The_limit_to_exercise_tolerance_in_humans_Mind_over_muscle)
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2) exercise task failure is not due to metabolite accumulation or lack of energy resources ( https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1113/JP270487%4010.1111/%28ISSN%291469-7793.TOPCITEDPAPERS2015-2017)
3) motivation improved time to exhaustion ( https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jappl.1968.24.4.459)
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3) motivation improved time to exhaustion ( https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jappl.1968.24.4.459)
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The psychobiological model of endurance performance considers the perception of effort and it's role in endurance performance.
The psychological perception of effort is how hard a task feels and this is measured by RPE. This is a conscious feeling.
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The psychological perception of effort is how hard a task feels and this is measured by RPE. This is a conscious feeling.
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The biological perception of effort relates to the brain and mental fatigue. @SamueleMarcora provided the analogy of a jockey and a horse. The jockey is the brain and the horse is the body. The perception of effort relates to how hard the jockey has to drive the horse.
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How we can manage perception or effort is through:
- training: a fitter body does not require as much "driving"
- avoid mentally fatiguing activities before a race
- avoid trying to "control" emotions
- reduce cognitive workload during competition
- use self-talk
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- training: a fitter body does not require as much "driving"
- avoid mentally fatiguing activities before a race
- avoid trying to "control" emotions
- reduce cognitive workload during competition
- use self-talk
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Thank you @SamueleMarcora for the excellent presentation. I'm looking forward to your future work on brain stimulation and brain endurance training.
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