Pre-Cooling and sports performance: A meta-analytical review

Sports Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 545-564

  Wegmann, Melissa ^a   Faude, Oliver ^a,b   Poppendieck, Wigand ^a,c   Hecksteden, Anne ^a   Fröhlich, Michael ^a   Meyer, Tim ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

body temperature; cryotherapy; exercise; sports; sports medicine; watertherapeutic use

Indexed keywords

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BEVERAGE; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FITNESS; HEAT; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; THERMOREGULATION; TIME;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BEVERAGES; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EXERCISE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862288201     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11630550-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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