Fatigue is an important concern for all athletes sportspeople and coaches and in clinical exercise science there remains considerable debate about the definition of fatigue what causes it what its impact is during different forms of exercise and what the best methods are to combat fatigue and improve performance this is the first student focused book to survey the contemporary research evidence into exercise induced fatigue and to discuss how knowledge of fatigue can be applied in . Fatigue is an important concern for all athletes sportspeople and coaches and in clinical exercise science there remains considerable debate about the definition of fatigue what causes it what its impact is during different forms of exercise and what the best methods are to combat fatigue and improve performance. Fatigue in sport and exercise is an invaluable companion for any degree level course in sport and exercise physiology fitness and training or strength and conditioning shaun phillips is lecturer in sport physical education and health sciences sports physiology at the university of edinburgh scotland. Fatigue in sport and exercise fatigue is an important concern for all athletes sportspeople and coaches and in clinical exercise science there remains considerable debate about the definition of fatigue what causes it what its impact is during different forms of exercise and what the best methods are to combat fatigue and improve performance