Deception In Sport

Research in deception in recent years has been explored more frequently, with the view to advance exercise performance among athletes. Studies often focus on how athletes can access their metabolic energy resource, which is thought to be something they cannot exploit through regular exercise. Previous research has suggested that there are various methods as to how this energy source can be accessed. Psychological deception, such as increasing the pace of an avatar acting as a competitor as well as physiological deception, such as believing you are in a hypoxic chamber when you are in fact not, have shown to be ways to access metabolic energy reserve. Changing personal perceptions of the task requires deception to avoid the risk to internal