Effect of an acute hot and dry exposure in moderately warm and humid environment on muscle performance at different times of day

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Deutscher übersetzter Titel:Auswirkung einer akut heißen und trockenen Exposition bei moderat warmer und feuchter Umgebung auf die Muskelleistung bei verschiedenen Tageszeiten
Autor:Racinais, S.; Chamari, K.; Hachana, Y.; Bartagi, Z.; Blonc, S.; Hue, O.
Erschienen in:International journal of sports medicine
Veröffentlicht:27 (2006), 1, S. 49-54, Lit.
Format: Literatur (SPOLIT)
Publikationstyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Medienart: Gedruckte Ressource
Sprache:Englisch
ISSN:0172-4622, 1439-3964
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Erfassungsnummer:PU200604000860
Quelle:BISp

Abstract

This study investigated whether 30 min of acute hot exposure has an additional passive warm-up effect for the improvement in muscle performance in a moderately warm and humid environment. We also sought to determine whether this effect is dependent on the diurnal variation in body temperature. Nine male subjects (age: 31.9 [± 5] years, height: 177 [± 6] cm, body mass: 69.3 [± 10] kg) were tested (CMJ, cycling sprints, and isokinetic contractions of the knee flexors and extensors) in a moderately warm and humid environment (24 [± 1] °C and 70 [± 4] % rh) with and without acute heat exposure (30 min of rest in a sauna at 76 [± 2] °C and 27 [± 1] % rh), both in the morning (07:00 - 09:00 h) and in the evening (17:00 - 19:00 h). Our results indicated a significant effect of both time-of-day and acute heat exposure on leg skin temperature (p<0.01) but failed to show any effect of time-of-day or acute heat exposure on the various evaluated parameters (CMJ: speed, force, power and height; cycling power: over a half pedal revolution and a total pedal revolution; isokinetic torque: knee extensor and flexor muscles at 4.19 rad/s, 3.14 rad/s, 2.09 rad/s, and 1.05 rad/s). In conclusion, our data suggest that 30 min of acute hot exposure does not have any passive warm-up effect in a moderately warm and humid environment. Furthermore, the diurnal variation in body temperature has no passive warm-up effect in a moderately warm and humid or in an extremely hot environment. Verf.-Referat