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. 2005 Feb;39(2):120–124. doi: 10.1136/bjsm.2003.010330

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

T Noakes 1, C St 1, E Lambert 1
PMCID: PMC1725112  PMID: 15665213

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