Mental fatigue and physical performance

The effects of mental fatigue on sport-related performance It is known that psychic fatigue increases the subjective fatigue feeling and reduces cognitive performance, but its influence on physical performance is barely understood. The aim of this chapter was to review the results of 29 studies published between 2009 and April 2018 and deal with the effects of intellectual exhaustion on the sports performance.All studies taken together seems that mental fatigue affects endurance, motorized and decision ability.However, maximum force production is not reduced in mental fatigue. These observations suggest that spiritual fatigue affects the sports-related performance in stress with submaximal intensity and not for loads with maximum and supramaximal intensity.

With 70 a marathon under 3 hours

PROFILE: How Gene Dykes ran a 2:54 marathon at age 70 The 70-year-old American Gene Dykes has run in Jacksonville last autumn, Florida, a marathon in 2:54:23 h: min: s.

This time is the fastest time each one man ever run at this age, even faster than the world record for this age group of ED Whitlock the aged 73 years a time of 2:54:48 h: min: s ran. The interview on his record run can be found under https://www.lifetimerunning.net/2018/12/profile-how-gene-tyke-ran-254-marathon.html

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Ultramarathon in extreme cold

Maintained Hydration Status After a 24-h Winter Mountain Running Race Under Extremely Cold Conditions Most ultra-based ultra-related climate is held.In this study, the liquid budget was examined at 20 finishers of a 24-hour running at a temperature of around 14 ° C. It showed, among other things, that experienced runners were less drank than less experienced runners and overall the runners drank very little per strain lesson.Although the runners so little drank their fluid balance stable.

The influence of an ultramarathon on the heart

Acute Responses of Novel Cardiac Biomarkers to a 24-h Ultra-Marathon It has long been known that extremely long running loads affect the heart. In this study, various cardiac biomarkers were measured before, during and after a 24-hour run, as well as the heart with echocardiograpy examined.

For the 14 runners, which achieved an average of 150 km, a significant increase in biomarkers and a change in the diastolic filling. The full article can be found under https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/8/1/57

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Motivation im Ultralaufen

What Really Drives Runners to Go Really, Really Long? The magazine Runner’s World has recently picked up our articles published in Psychology Research and Behavior Management and presented a broad audience. The comment can be found under https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a25728785/what-motivates-Ultrarunners-study/

Liquid supply in long loads

Proper Hydration During Ultra-endurance Activities. The American researcher Martin Hoffman from California has put together today’s state of knowledge of the supply of fluid in very long endurance charges. He concludes that the athletes are not allowed to drink too much and there is no reason for an additional supply of salt. There is no reason that a weight loss must be corrected under load due to increased fluid supply. The very insightful article can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30601394/

Who participates in ultra events

Participation Trends of Ultra Endurance Events The German researcher Volker Scheer from Paderborn has studied the existing literature on ultra events (competitions over 6 hours and longer) for running, swimming, cycling, cross-country skiing and triathlon. It shows that the number of participants has increased exponentially over the past 25 years.This increase is returned to the number of women and the older athletes. The article can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30601393/

What influences the competition time at a triathlon

Predicting Elite Triathlon Performance: A Comparison of Multiple Regressions and Artificial Neural Networks A German group has studied what variables influence the competition time in an Olympic triathlon. They determine aspects of body construction as well as physiological variables based on a stress test.

The authors concluded the aspects of body construction such as shoulder and pelvic width and various physiological variables have an impact on the competition time. The evaluation can be found under https://sciendo.com/article/10.1515/ijcss-2017-0009

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Nutrition in extreme duration

Nutrition in Ultra-Endurance: State of the Art Athletes participating in endurance sports should deal with nutritional questions, especially with regard to the energy and fluid budget.An extreme duration race - which lasts at least 6 hours after definition - can lead to an energy deficit of up to 7'000 kcal per day. Such a high negative energy balance is a weighty problem for health and performance, as it leads to events such as long-distance swimming, long-distance wheel driving and long-distance running to a decrease in the fat and skeletal muscle. The so-called sportsanemia caused by strong physical stress and gastrointestinal discomfort under very hot or very cold environmental conditions must also be considered as an important factor in health and performance in extreme duration.In addition, liquid losses can achieve by welding up to 2 l / h due to increased metabolism for prolonged training and in a hot environment, which can lead to a hypohydration. Athletes have an increased risk of stress-associated hyponatremia and swelling of the limbs when fluid intake is too high.