What is it about?
Using the same mathematical equation, our Force fatigue Model (FFM) is useful to characterize and predict the fatigue profile during a motorcycle race, and could be adopted in the routine assessment of top-level athletes in order to monitor the adaptations to training.
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Why is it important?
Our modeled maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) that represented the average fatigue pattern from all individuals, suggests the three phases of fatigue proposed by Allen (2009). That is, it reproduces a mild exponential decrement of the force during the first ~20% of the test, followed by a more linear and slight decrement during the central part, that ends with a slightly steeper but more curved decrement of the force.
Perspectives
Our FFM can be useful to check if a determined type of training has the potential to change from an exponential or three-phase pattern to the linear pattern that characterized the best performing riders.
Dr Michel Marina
INEFC Barcelona
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This page is a summary of: Force-time course parameters and force fatigue model during an intermittent fatigue protocol in motorcycle race riders, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, April 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/sms.12220.
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