regulation of pacing strategy during athletic competition在体育比赛踱步的监管策略.pdfVIP

Regulation of Pacing Strategy during Athletic Competition 1,2 1,2 1 1 3 2 Jos J. de Koning *, Carl Foster , Arjan Bakkum , Sil Kloppenburg , Christian Thiel , Trent Joseph , Jacob Cohen2, John P. Porcari2 1 Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Research Institute MOVE, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2 Department of Exercise and Sport Science, ¨ University of Wisconsin La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America, 3 Department of Sportmedicine, Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt, Germany Abstract Background: Athletic competition has been a source of interest to the scientific community for many years, as a surrogate of the limits of human ambulatory ability. One of the remarkable things about athletic competition is the observation that some athletes suddenly reduce their pace in the mid-portion of the race and drop back from their competitors. Alternatively, other athletes will perform great accelerations in mid-race (surges) or during the closing stages of the race (the endspurt). This observation fits well with recent evidence that muscular power output is regulated in an anticipatory way, designed to prevent unreasonably large homeostatic disturbances. Principal Findings: Here we demonstrate that a simple index, the product of the momentary Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) and the fraction of race distance remaining, the Hazard Score, defines the likelihood that athletes will change their velocity during simulated competitions; and may effectively represent the language used to allow anticipatory regulation of muscle power outp