David A. Jones

TL;DR: The results suggest that the improvement in exercise performance that is observed when carbohydrate is present in the mouth may be due to the activation of brain regions believed to be involved in reward and motor control.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that carbohydrate mouth rinse has a positive effect on 1-h time trial performance, and the mechanism responsible for the improvement in high-intensity exercise performance with exogenous carbohydrate appears to involve an increase in central drive or motivation rather than having any metabolic cause.

TL;DR: Significant changes in excitation-contraction coupling have long been recognized as possible causes of the failure in function which occurs in fatigued muscle, and there is evidence from intracellular measurements that low-frequency fatigue is due to a reduction in Ca2+ release.

TL;DR: Passive stretching was commonly used to increase limb range of movement prior to athletic performance but it is unclear which component of the muscle–tendon unit (MTU) is affected by this procedure but post‐conditioning this was not the case suggesting that at least part of the change in muscle with conditioning stretches was due to altered properties of connective tissue.

TL;DR: IMT improves rowing performance on the 6-min all-out effort and the 5000-m trial and improves the resistance of the training group to inspiratory muscle fatigue after the 7-minute all- out effort.