The effects of 7-week participation in football on personal well-being among male asylum seekers in a UK hotel.

Background: This study examines the impact of participating in a seven-week football programme on the personal well-being of male asylum seekers residing in contingency accommodation in the UK.

Methods: This repeated measures study included a cohort of participants who engaged in weekly football sessions and completed a well-being questionnaire (ONS4) over a continuous seven-week period. Longitudinal linear regression analysis using generalized estimating equations (GEE) was used to assess the relationship between personal well-being and weekly minutes of football participation (M1).

Redirected Attention and Impaired Recognition Memory during Exhaustive Cycling Has Implications for Information Processing Models of Effort-Regulation.

Unlabelled: Perception of internal and external cues is an important determinant of pacing behaviour, but little is known about the capacity to attend to such cues as exercise intensity increases. This study investigated whether changes in attentional focus and recognition memory correspond with selected psychophysiological and physiological parameters during exhaustive cycling.

Methods: Twenty male participants performed two laboratory ramped cycling tests beginning at 50 W and increasing by 0.

French Translation and Validation of the Rating-of-Fatigue Scale.

Background: The Rating of Fatigue (ROF) scale can measure changes in perceived fatigue in a variety of contexts.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to translate and subsequently validate the ROF scale in the French language.

Methods: The study was composed of three phases.

Muscle pain from an intramuscular injection of hypertonic saline increases variability in knee extensor torque reproduction.

The intensity of exercise-induced pain (EIP) reflects the metabolic environment in the exercising muscle, so during endurance exercise, this may inform the intelligent regulation of work rate. Conversely, the acute debilitating effects of EIP on motor unit recruitment could impair the estimation of force produced by the muscle and impair judgement of current exercise intensity. This study investigated whether muscle pain that feels like EIP, administered via intramuscular injection of hypertonic saline, interferes with the ability to accurately reproduce torque in a muscle group relevant to locomotive exercise.

Muscle pain induced by hypertonic saline in the knee extensors decreases single-limb isometric time to task failure.

Purpose: Increased nociceptive activity and the experience of exercise-induced pain (EIP) may contribute to fatigue during endurance exercise. To investigate this, a pain model that produces pain similar to EIP and decouples its relationship to exercise intensity is required. This study (1) compared the quality of pain caused by a hypertonic saline injection into the vastus lateralis in resting and exercise conditions, and (2) investigated whether this pain contributes to changes in time to task failure.