Keeping your cool: Possible mechanisms for enhanced exercise performance in the heat with internal cooling methods

Sports Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-98

  Siegel, Rodney ^a,b   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

Sports medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEAT; HEAT EXHAUSTION; HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERMOREGULATION; TIME;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEAT EXHAUSTION; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855929676     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11596870-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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