"reaching exhaustion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to imply that someone or something has been pushed to the edge of their capabilities and is close to giving up. For example, "After hours of studying, I was reaching exhaustion."
The end of the test was determined by the participant, who was instructed to discontinue walking or running upon reaching exhaustion.
In this current study, we show that Myog-deleted adult mice exhibit an enhanced exercise capacity in response to physical stress and are able to more fully deplete their glycogen stores before reaching exhaustion compared with wild-type controls.
Myog-deleted mice display increased levels of lactate build-up at exhaustion and are capable of further tapping into glycogen stores that wild-type mice do not access before reaching exhaustion.
Virtually unchanged Myog-deleted lactate levels at the wild-type exhaustion point and increased utilization of liver glycogen before reaching exhaustion suggested that Myog-deleted mice possessed enhanced oxidative capacity.
In response to moderate exercise, SOD1G86R mice ran an average of 67.34 min (median at 65.43) before reaching exhaustion, while their WT littermates ran an average of 46.10 min (median at 59.33) prior to exhaustion (Fig 1D).
They reached exhaustion on treadmill testing long before their unaffected labmates.
The trustees estimate in the same report that the Medicare trust fund will reach "exhaustion" even sooner: 2024.
The step test is what's known as a 'submaximal' test - in other words, it doesn't require you to reach exhaustion.
In the present study, all participants reach exhaustion at 125 W.
It was found that the creep very easily reaches exhaustion for Ni Sn and the copper substrate even at high load holds and thus both exhibit a high stress exponent.
They were requested to reach exhaustion with dynamic contraction at 70% of their own One Repetition Maximal (1RM) using, in two different days and in random order, Thera Band® tubes or traditional weight plates on an arm machine designed and built for those tasks.
