Sentence examples for physiological limiting from inspiring English sources

Moreover, digestion of starch probably involves fewer physiological limiting factors than that of other components of the diet, since only a few types of hydrolytic enzymes (α-amylase, maltase, isomaltase) and a very efficient absorption of glucose, the end product, are required.

The topics of studies on the repeated-sprint ability (RSA) are the same as for the single sprint performance: reliability and validity of the results [ 127– 129], metabolic and physiological limiting factors [ 130– 133], effects of different training programs [ 134, 135], and chronobiology of performances [ 136, 137].

Feats like that, Bain said, bump up against a much firmer physiological limit.

Noakes is now most famous for having abandoned the idea of physiological limits entirely.

But the plan helped push Mr. Whillans, 56, past his physiological limits and he has slashed his half-marathon time by 20 minutes.

That sort of increase in metabolic rate, he added, is what birds reach when they fly and is thought to be a physiological limit.

As Mr Miller puts it, if certain "hard physiological limits" were broken, the receiver would stand no chance.

"Current technology with laser scanners and microscopes allows us to monitor retinal diseases at the microscopic level, but the things we see are beyond the physiological limit of what the human hand can operate on.

It is also possible, scientists say, that racehorses have reached their physiological limits -- how much blood the horse can pump or how much weight a horse's legs can bring to 38 m.p.h.

It is an effort by individuals who are already part of a thin slice of humanity -- the genetic freaks -- to gain an edge against one another, to exceed their physiological limits in a way that they could not through pure training.

The constant A represents a physiological limit.