Pacing Behavior Development: The Role of Task Experience and the Presence of Competitors.

Introduction: Self-regulation of effort during exercise (i.e., pacing) is a determinant of exercise performance, which develops during childhood and adolescence. Yet the various aspects of pacing under development, such as the capability to use task experience and retain the task goal in the presenc...

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Publicado en:Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 154 - 163
Autores principales: MENTING, STEIN GERRIT PAUL, KHUDAIR, MOHAMMED, ELFERINK-GEMSER, MARIJE TITIA, HETTINGA, FLORENTINA JOHANNA
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Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Jan2025
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          MENTING, STEIN GERRIT PAUL
          KHUDAIR, MOHAMMED
          ELFERINK-GEMSER, MARIJE TITIA
          HETTINGA, FLORENTINA JOHANNA
        affil: Center for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS
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          Exercise Physiology
          Self Regulation
          Competitive Behavior
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Athletic Performance
          Adolescent Behavior
          Athletes Psychosocial Factors
          Cycling
          Computer Simulation
          Human
          Male
          Female
          Adolescence
          Adult
          Experimental Studies
          Avatars
          Descriptive Statistics
          Repeated Measures
          Analysis of Variance
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Male
          Female
      ab: Introduction: Self-regulation of effort during exercise (i.e., pacing) is a determinant of exercise performance, which develops during childhood and adolescence. Yet the various aspects of pacing under development, such as the capability to use task experience and retain the task goal in the presence of other competitors, have remained relatively unexplored. Methods: Nine adolescents (14.9 ± 2.1 yr old) and 14 adults (24.2 ± 3.2 yr old) completed four 4-km cycling trials in a well-controlled laboratory setting. After one familiarization visit, trials were performed in random order: alone, with the goal to finish the trial as fast as possible (AloneTime), with a competitor and the same goal (CompTime), or with a competitor and the goal to finish first (CompFirst). Within each age-group, repeated-measures ANOVA (P < 0.05) examined the differences in the estimated task duration, pacing behavior (distribution of mean power output per 500 m), and performance (finish time) between visits (4) or conditions (3). Results: In contrast to adults (P < 0.05, η p2 > 0.20), adolescents did not exhibit a change in estimation of task duration, pacing behavior, or performance over repeated visits (P > 0.05, η p2 < 0.10). Adolescents altered their pacing behavior in the presence of a competitor independent of the task goal (CompTime and CompFirst), whereas adults only demonstrated this alteration when instructed to finish first (CompFirst). Conclusions: Adolescents are still developing the capability 1) to use experience from previous tasks to adjust their pacing behavior and 2) to inhibit the intuitive action of engaging with the competitor to retain the more abstract task goal of finishing the trial as fast as possible. These findings establish novel experimental evidence for the underpinnings of pacing behavior development.
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