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. 2004 Aug;38(4):511–514. doi: 10.1136/bjsm.2003.009860

From catastrophe to complexity: a novel model of integrative central neural regulation of effort and fatigue during exercise in humans

T Noakes 1, C St 1, E Lambert 1
PMCID: PMC1724894  PMID: 15273198

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