Heat maintenance potentiates benefits of heat acclimation 🌡️📈
A practical home-based strategy.
Three weeks of heat maintenance potentiates the benefits of heat acclimation in trained females
Study Details
This new study recruited trained females who were assigned to complete…
🌡️ 10 sessions of heat acclimation (5 sessions per week for 2 weeks) 🌡️
…followed by 9 sessions of heat maintenance (3 sessions per week for 3 weeks) 🗓️
All heat sessions were home-based stationary cycling whilst overdressing 🚴♀️
A control group was exposed to heart rate-matched thermoneutral training 🫀
Key Findings
Compared to control, the heat group significantly increased…
💪 Peak power output (at 18°C)
⏰ Time trial performance (at 35°C, 45% RH)
…from pre- to mid (after acclimation) and post (after maintenance) 📈
Sweat rate also increased from pre- to post- in the heat group only 💦
There were no differences in hemoglobin mass between groups 🩸
Conclusion
Heat maintenance potentiates the benefits of heat acclimation as demonstrated by improvements in both temperate and hot conditions ✅
Although this protocol was not sufficient to induce haematological adaptations ❌
Reference
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41254480/
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