Pre-cooling with ice slurry ingestion leads to similar run times to exhaustion in the heat as cold water immersion

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 155-165

  Siegel, Rodney ^a,b   Maté, Joseph ^a   Watson, Greig ^a   Nosaka, Kazunori ^a   Laursen, Paul B ^a,b,c  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Auckland University of Technology High Performance Sport New Zealand   (New Zealand)

^c AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Core temperature; External cooling; Internal cooling; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; ICE; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BATH; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING; ENDURANCE; ENVIRONMENT; FATIGUE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IMMERSION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING;

ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BATHS; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD TEMPERATURE; DRINKING; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENT; FATIGUE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; ICE; IMMERSION; MALE; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RUNNING; WATER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755196685     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2011.625968     Document Type: Article

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