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Ultra-endurance athletes and the metabolic ceiling.
Andrew Best, Srishti Sadhir, Emily Hyatt, Herman Pontzer
Published: 202510.1016/j.cub.2025.08.063
Abstract
Endurance limits, measured as the maximum sustainable rate of caloric expenditure, constrain human performance from athletics to manual labor. Early work on the metabolic limits of humans and other species focused on establishing a single estimate fo…
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