Fatigue Research Paper

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1.0 Fatigue Hypothesis Fatigue can be defined as extremely tiredness resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness. Based on my first journal by van Dieen, Luger and van der Eb (2011), the purpose of the research is to test the hypothesis that fatigue due to exercise will affect the trunk stability in elite female gymnasts. The method that they used is three trials of a balancing task while sitting on a seat fixed over a hemisphere. Before the research started, all of the gymnasts were instructed to handstand on an uneven bar to make their trunk muscle fatigue. On this study, they used force plate to trace the center of pressure (CoP). For the first task, those gymnasts required to sit as still as possible on the hemisphere for 30 seconds. While the second task required the gymnasts to lean back on the seat over a set angle and suddenly released in which the subject had to regain balance. The result was recorded before and after the research. As the discussion, the writers stated that training activities will affect the trunk …show more content…

There are 71 healthy volunteers participated in the study. The experiment was divided into six phases illustrated which is familiarization session, pre-test, training session, post-test, consolidation, retention test and transfer session. The procedure of the experiment is the subject which is 15 men required to retention sleep for three hours. The authors want to observe the substances that infused or release during the retention sleep. As the result, the 3 hours of retention sleep during slow wave sleep (SWS) plays a important role in emotional memory

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