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Exercise-induced pain is proposed as a contributing factor that helps individuals regulate their work rate during exercise and serves as an important construct in pacing.
Highlights the potential role of exercise-induced pain as an important construct in regulating pacing during endurance performance.
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May inform pacing strategies in endurance athletes; leaves open causal tests of pain modulation on performance.
During prolonged dynamic and rhythmic exercise, muscular pain and discomfort arises as a result of an increased concentration of deleterious metabolites. Sensed by peripheral nociceptors and transmitted via afferent feedback to the brain, this provides important information regarding the physiological state of the muscle. These sensations ultimately contribute to what is termed "exercise-induced pain". Despite being well recognized by athletes and coaches, and suggested to be integral to exercise performance, this construct has largely escaped attention in experimental work. This perspective article highlights the current understanding of pacing in endurance performance, and the causes of exercise-induced pain. A new perspective is described, which proposes how exercise-induced pain may be a contributing factor in helping individuals to regulate their work rate during exercise and thus provides an important construct in pacing.
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Lex Mauger (2014) conducted a review in Exercise-induced pain and pacing in endurance performance. Exercise-induced pain was evaluated. Exercise-induced pain is proposed as a contributing factor that helps individuals regulate their work rate during exercise and serves as an important construct in pacing.
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