There is considerable research interest in psychological aspects of endurance performance.
Until recently, research typically lacked a theoretical underpinning, and contemporary …

Background A key tenet of sports performance research is to provide coaches and athletes
with information to inform better practice, yet the determinants of athletic performance in …

Self-regulation reflects an individual's efforts to bring behavior and thinking into line with
often consciously desired goals. During endurance activity, self-regulation requires an …

An athlete's pacing strategy is widely recognised as an essential determinant for
performance during individual events. Previous research focussed on the importance of …

Athlete–environment interactions are crucial factors in understanding the regulation of
exercise intensity in head-to-head competitions. Previously, we have proposed a framework …

Pacing has been characterized as a multifaceted goal-directed process of decision making
in which athletes need to decide how and when to invest their energy during the race, a …

Scientific interest in pacing goes back> 100 years. Contemporary interest, both as a feature
of athletic competition and as a window into understanding fatigue, goes back> 30 years …

Objective The positive effect of an audience on performance is anecdotally well known, but
the impact of such social facilitation to both performance and the motivation to exercise have …

An essential determinant for success in sports is pacing. Cognitive mechanisms like self-
regulation and executive functions are strongly related to adequate pacing behaviour, and …

As proposed by Triplett in 1898 and evidenced by a recent series of lab and field studies,
racing against other competitors consistently results in increased performance compared to …