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The Psychobiological Model of Endurance Performance: An Effort-Based Decision-Making Theory to Explain Self-Paced Endurance Performance

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Romuald Lepers and Samuele Marcora for our numerous discussions on this topic and their feedback on this manuscript.

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Pageaux, B. The Psychobiological Model of Endurance Performance: An Effort-Based Decision-Making Theory to Explain Self-Paced Endurance Performance. Sports Med 44, 1319–1320 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-014-0198-2

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