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| Ross TuckerSummaryAffiliation: University of Cape Town Country: South Africa Publications
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Energy expenditure of a noncontact boxing training session compared with submaximal treadmill runningB Bellinger
Department of Physiology, University of Cape Town Medical School, South Africa
Med Sci Sports Exerc 29:1653-6. 1997..A typical boxing training session lasting 60 min causes a person to expend 2821 +/- 190 kJ x h(-1), the same amount of energy as someone running about 9 km in 60 min on the treadmill...
Evidence for complex system integration and dynamic neural regulation of skeletal muscle recruitment during exercise in humansA St Clair Gibson
Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, University of Cape Town, Newlands, South Africa
Br J Sports Med 38:797-806. 2004..The end point of the exercise bout is the controlling variable. This is an example of a complex, non-linear, dynamic system in which physiological systems interact to regulate activity before, during, and after the exercise bout...- Evaluation of maximal exercise performance, fatigue, and depression in athletes with acquired chronic training intoleranceA St Clair Gibson
UCT MRC Research Unit of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Clin J Sport Med 16:39-45. 2006.... - The role of information processing between the brain and peripheral physiological systems in pacing and perception of effortAlan St Clair Gibson
Brain Sciences Research Group, MRC UCT Research Unit of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Sports Med 36:705-22. 2006.... - Neural control of force output during maximal and submaximal exerciseA St Clair Gibson
The Medical Research Council, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Sports Med 31:637-50. 2001.... - Reduced neuromuscular activity and force generation during prolonged cyclingA St Clair Gibson
MRC UCT Research Unit of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town Medical School, Cape Town, 7725 South Africa
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 281:R187-96. 2001..These changes occurred when <20% of available muscle was recruited and suggest the presence of a central neural governor that reduces the active muscle recruited during prolonged exercise... - Quadriceps and hamstrings peak torque ratio changes in persons with chronic anterior cruciate ligament deficiencyA St Clair Gibson
Department of Physiology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 30:418-27. 2000..Cross-sectional analytical study in which subjects served as their own controls... - Measurement of maximal oxygen uptake from two different laboratory protocols in runners and squash playersA St Clair Gibson
Department of Physiology, University of Cape Town Medical School, South Africa
Med Sci Sports Exerc 31:1226-9. 1999.... - Metabolic setpoint control mechanisms in different physiological systems at rest and during exerciseA St Clair Gibson
Brain Sciences Research Group, MRC UCT Research Unit of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Sport Science Institute of South Africa, P O Box 115, Newlands 7725, South Africa
J Theor Biol 236:60-72. 2005.... - The rate of heat storage mediates an anticipatory reduction in exercise intensity during cycling at a fixed rating of perceived exertionRoss Tucker
University of Cape Town Medical Research Council UCT MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
J Physiol 574:905-15. 2006..This regulation maintains thermal homeostasis by reducing the exercise work rate and utilizing the subjective RPE specifically to ensure that excessive heat accumulation does not occur and cellular catastrophe is avoided... - Effect of distance feedback on pacing strategy and perceived exertion during cyclingYumna Albertus
MRC UCT Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, the University of Cape Town and the Sports Science Institute of SOUTH AFRICA, Cape Town, South Africa
Med Sci Sports Exerc 37:461-8. 2005..The aim of this study was to investigate whether providing incorrect distance feedback would alter pacing strategies, perceived exertion, and heart rate during 20-km cycling time trials (TT)... - Impaired exercise performance in the heat is associated with an anticipatory reduction in skeletal muscle recruitmentRoss Tucker
MRC UCT Bioenergetics of Exercise Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Sports Science Institute of South Africa, PO Box 115, 7725, Newlands, South Africa
Pflugers Arch 448:422-30. 2004..This adaptation appears to form part of an anticipatory response which adjusts muscle recruitment and power output to reduce heat production, thereby ensuring that thermal homeostasis is maintained during exercise in the heat... 
Heatstroke during endurance exercise: is there evidence for excessive endothermy?Dale E Rae
1UCT MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Med Sci Sports Exerc 40:1193-204. 2008....- Hyperoxia improves 20 km cycling time trial performance by increasing muscle activation levels while perceived exertion stays the sameRoss Tucker
MRC UCT Research Unit for Excercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Sports Science Institute of South Africa, P O Box 115, Newlands 7725, South Africa
Eur J Appl Physiol 101:771-81. 2007..We suggest that a complex, intelligent system regulates exercise performance through the control of muscle activation levels in an integrative manner under conditions of normoxia and hyperoxia... - Alternative methods of normalising EMG during runningYumna Albertus-Kajee
UCT MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
J Electromyogr Kinesiol 21:579-86. 2011..The dynamic methods were the most appropriate for EMG normalisation showing repeatability, better intra-subject reliability and better sensitivity during running over different days and for once-off measurements... - The rate of increase in rating of perceived exertion predicts the duration of exercise to fatigue at a fixed power output in different environmental conditionsHelen Crewe
Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Newlands, South Africa
Eur J Appl Physiol 103:569-77. 2008..92). This study shows that the rate of increase in RPE predicts the duration of exercise to exhaustion at a constant power output in different environmental conditions... - The effect of a second runner on pacing strategy and RPE during a running time trialDeryn Bath
UCT MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Int J Sports Physiol Perform 7:26-32. 2012..The aim of this study was to examine performance, pacing strategy and perception of effort during a 5 km time trial while running with or without the presence of another athlete... - Thermoregulation, fatigue and exercise modalityRoss Tucker
MRC UCT Research Unit of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Med Sport Sci 53:26-38. 2008..The findings from studies utilising different exercise modalities (fixed intensity vs. self-paced) have produced an alternative hypothesis explaining exercise regulation... - What makes champions? A review of the relative contribution of genes and training to sporting successRoss Tucker
Department of Human Biology, Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Br J Sports Med 46:555-61. 2012.... - Dysnatremia predicts a delayed recovery in collapsed ultramarathon runnersTamara Hew-Butler
Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Clin J Sport Med 17:289-96. 2007.... - The science of sex verification and athletic performanceRoss Tucker
UCT MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine of the Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Int J Sports Physiol Perform 5:127-39. 2010..This review will therefore provide the historical context of the debate and aim to discuss relevant physiological and performance aspects of the sex verification process... - Alternative methods of normalising EMG during cyclingYumna Albertus-Kajee
UCT MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, the University of Cape Town and the Sports Science Institute of SOUTH AFRICA, Cape Town, South Africa
J Electromyogr Kinesiol 20:1036-43. 2010..The data suggests that normalising EMG to dynamic methods is the most appropriate for examining muscle activity during cycling over different days and for once-off measurements... - Distribution of power output during cycling: impact and mechanismsGreg Atkinson
School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, England
Sports Med 37:647-67. 2007..How all this information is assimilated by the different regions of the brain is not known at present... - Activation time course of activator protein-1 and effect of proline dithiocarbamate during ischemia-reperfusion in rat skeletal muscleScott R Lefler
Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Ann Plast Surg 49:654-9. 2002..05) after intravenous administration of Pro-DTC (n = 7 animals in each group). Further elucidation of the role of AP-1 is warranted in hopes of developing strategies to reduce the deleterious effects of ischemia-reperfusion injury... - Inverse relationship between VO2max and economy in world-class cyclistsTimothy D Noakes
Med Sci Sports Exerc 36:1083-4; author reply 1085-6. 2004