BET enhances endurance performance through several mechanisms:
Reduced Perceived Exertion: By increasing the brain’s tolerance to mental fatigue, individuals perceive physical tasks as less exhausting, allowing them to sustain higher levels of effort.
Improved Mental Resilience: Enhanced cognitive function enables better management of discomfort and fatigue signals during prolonged activities.
Delayed Onset of Fatigue: BET trains the brain to resist fatigue-related declines in performance, extending the duration an individual can perform at peak levels.
Optimized Neural Efficiency: Increased prefrontal cortex oxygenation and neural adaptations lead to more efficient processing of physical and cognitive demands.
These factors collectively contribute to significant improvements in endurance, as evidenced by increased time to exhaustion and greater distances covered in endurance tests following BET interventions.