Adaptation to Heat and Exercise Performance Under Cooler Conditions: A New Hot Topic

Sports Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1323-1331

  Corbett, Jo ^a   Neal, Rebecca A ^a   Lunt, Heather C ^a   Tipton, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BLOOD; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE; HEAT; HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 84919326284     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-014-0212-8     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Armstrong LE, Maresh CM. The induction and decay of heat acclimatisation in trained athletes. Sports Med. 1991;12:302–12.
2. Horowitz M. Heat acclimation and cross-tolerance against novel stressors: genomic–physiological linkage. Prog Brain Res. 2007;162:373–92.
3. Lunt HC, Barwood MJ, Corbett J, et al. ‘Cross-adaptation’: habituation to short repeated cold-water immersions affects the response to acute hypoxia in humans. J Physiol. 2010;588:3605–13.
4. Stray-Gundersen J, Chapman RF, Levine BD. “Living high-training low” altitude training improves sea level performance in male and female elite runners. J Appl Physiol. 2001;91:1113–20.
5. Lorenzo S, Halliwill JR, Sawka MN, et al. Heat acclimation improves exercise performance. J Appl Physiol. 2010;109:1140–7.
6. Bonetti DL, Hopkins WG. Sea-level exercise performance following adaptation to hypoxia. Sports Med. 2009;39:107–27.
7. Robinson S, Turrell ES, Belding HS, et al. Rapid acclimatization to work in hot climates. Am J Physiol. 1943;140:168–76.
8. Wyndham CH. Effect of acclimatization on circulatory responses to high environmental temperatures. J Appl Physiol. 1951;4:383–95.
9. Lind AR, Bass DE. Optimal exposure time for development of acclimatization to heat. Fed Proc. 1962;22:704–8.
10. Wyndham CH, Rogers GG, Senay LC, et al. Acclimization in a hot, humid environment: cardiovascular adjustments. J Appl Physiol. 1976;40:779–85.
11. Shvartz E, Shapiro Y, Magazanik A, et al. Heat acclimation, physical fitness, and responses to exercise in temperate and hot environments. J Appl Physiol Respir Environ Exerc Physiol. 1977;43:678–83.
12. Nielsen B, Hales JR, Strange S, et al. Human circulatory and thermoregulatory adaptations with heat acclimation and exercise in a hot, dry environment. J Physiol. 1993;460:467–85.
13. Weller AS, Linnane DM, Jonkman AG, et al. Quantification of the decay and re-induction of heat acclimation in dry-heat following 12 and 26 days without exposure to heat stress. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2007;102:57–66.
14. Senay LC, Mitchell D, Wyndham CH. Acclimatization in a hot, humid environment: body fluid adjustments. J Appl Physiol. 1976;40:786–96.
15. Garrett AT, Rehrer NJ, Patterson MJ. Induction and decay of short-term heat acclimation in moderately and highly trained athletes. Sports Med. 2011;41:757–71.
16. Scoon GS, Hopkins WG, Mayhew S, et al. Effect of post-exercise sauna bathing on the endurance performance of competitive male runners. J Sci Med Sport. 2007;10:259–62.
17. Takeno Y, Kamijo YI, Nose H. Thermoregulatory and aerobic changes after endurance training in a hypobaric hypoxic and warm environment. J Appl Physiol. 2001;91:1520–8.
18. Horowitz M, Parnes S, Hasin Y. Mechanical and metabolic performance of the rat heart: effects of combined stress of heat acclimation and swimming training. J Basic Clin Physiol Pharmacol. 1993;4:139–56.
19. Horowitz M, Shimoni Y, Parnes S, et al. Heat acclimation: cardiac performance of isolated rat heart. J Appl Physiol. 1986;60:9–13.
20. Roberts MF, Wenger CB, Stolwijk JA, et al. Skin blood flow and sweating changes following exercise training and heat acclimation. J Appl Physiol. 1977;43:133–7.
21. Sawka MN, Pandolf KB, Avellini BA, et al. Does heat acclimation lower the rate of metabolism elicited by muscular exercise? Aviat Space Environ Med. 1983;54:27–31.
22. Kirwan JP, Costill DL, Kuipers H, et al. Substrate utilization in leg muscle of men after heat acclimation. J Appl Physiol. 1987;63:31–5.
23. Febbraio MA, Snow RJ, Hargreaves M, et al. Muscle metabolism during exercise and heat stress in trained men: effect of acclimation. J Appl Physiol. 1994;76:589–97.
24. Young AJ, Sawka MN, Levine L, et al. Skeletal muscle metabolism during exercise is influenced by heat acclimation. J Appl Physiol. 1985;59:1929–35.
25. Goto K, Oda H, Kondo H, et al. Responses of muscle mass, strength and gene transcripts to long-term heat stress in healthy human subjects. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2011;111:17–27.
26. Kakigi R, Naito H, Ogura Y, et al. Heat stress enhances mTOR signaling after resistance exercise in human skeletal muscle. J Physiol Sci. 2011;61:131–40.
27. Yoshihara T, Naito H, Kakigi R, et al. Heat stress activates the Akt/mTOR signalling pathway in rat skeletal muscle. Acta Physiol (Oxf). 2013;207:416–26.
28. Sawka MN, Young AJ, Cadarette BS, et al. Influence of heat stress and acclimation on maximal aerobic power. Eur J Appl Physiol Occup Physiol. 1985;53:294–8.
29. Castle P, Mackenzie RW, Maxwell N, et al. Heat acclimation improves intermittent sprinting in the heat but additional pre-cooling offers no further ergogenic effect. J Sport Sci. 2011;29:1125–34.
30. Piwonka RW, Robinson S, Gay VL, et al. Preacclimatization of men to heat by training. J Appl Physiol. 1965;20:379–83.
31. Buchheit M, Voss SC, Nybo L, et al. Physiological and performance adaptations to an in-season soccer camp in the heat: associations with heart rate and heart rate variability. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2011;21:e477–85.
32. Sawka MN. Career perspectives of Michael N. Sawka. Extrem Physiol Med. 2012;1:1–10.
33. Buchheit M, Racinais S, Bilsborough J, et al. Adding heat to the live-high train-low altitude model: a practical insight from professional football. B J Sports Med. 2013;47(Suppl 1):i59–69.
34. Racinais S, Buchheit M, Bilsborough J, et al. Physiological and performance responses to a training-camp in the heat in professional Australian football players. Int J Sports Physiol Perf. Epub 1 Oct 2013.
35. Galloway SD, Maughan RJ. Effects of ambient temperature on the capacity to perform prolonged cycle exercise in man. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1997;29:1240–9.
36. Ely MR, Cheuvront SN, Roberts WO, et al. Impact of weather on marathon-running performance. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2007;39:487–93.
37. Ely MR, Martin DE, Cheuvront SN, et al. Effect of ambient temperature on marathon pacing is dependent on runner ability. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2008;40:1675–80.
38. Nybo L. Cycling in the heat: performance perspectives and cerebral challenges. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2010;20:71–9.
39. Périard JD, Christian RJ, Knez WL, et al. Voluntary muscle and motor cortical activation during progressive exercise and passively induced hyperthermia. Exp Physiol. 2014;99:136–48.
40. Todd G, Butler JE, Taylor JL, et al. Hyperthermia: a failure of the motor cortex and the muscle. J Physiol. 2005;563:621–31.
41. Rowell LB. Human cardiovascular adjustments to thermal stress. Physiol Rev. 1974;54:75–159.
42. Lind AR. A physiological criterion for setting thermal environmental limits for everyday work. J Appl Physiol. 1963;18:51–6.
43. Ely BR, Ely MR, Cheuvront SN, et al. Evidence against a 40°C core temperature threshold for fatigue in humans. J Appl Physiol. 2009;107:1519–25.
44. Sawka MN, Cheuvront SN, Kenefick RW. High skin temperature and hypohydration impair aerobic performance. Exp Physiol. 2012;97:327–32.
45. Gagge AP, Gonzalez RR. Mechanisms of heat exchange: biophysics and physiology. In: Fregly MJ, Blatteis CM, editors. Handbook of Physiology. Bethesda: American Physiological Society; 1996. p. 45–84.
46. Rowell LB, Murray JA, Brengelmann GL, et al. Human cardiovascular adjustments to rapid changes in skin temperature during exercise. Circ Res. 1969;24:711–24.
47. Krip B, Gledhill N, Jamnik V, et al. Effect of alterations in blood volume on cardiac function during maximal exercise. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1997;29:1469–76.
48. Coyle EF, Hopper MK, Coggan AR. Maximal oxygen uptake relative to plasma volume expansion. Int J Sports Med. 1990;11:116–9.
49. Horowitz M, Peyser YM, Muhlrad A. Alterations in cardiac myosin isoenzymes distribution as an adaptation to chronic environmental heat stress in the rat. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 1986;18:511–5.
50. Kodesh E, Horowitz M. Soleus adaptation to combined exercise and heat acclimation: physiogenomic aspects. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2010;42:943–52.
51. Joyner MJ, Coyle EF. Endurance exercise performance: the physiology of champions. J Physiol. 2008;586:35–44.
52. Nolte HW, Noakes TD, van Vuuren B. Protection of total body water content and absence of hyperthermia despite 2% body mass loss (‘voluntary dehydration’) in soldiers drinking ad libitum during prolonged exercise in cool environmental conditions. B J Sports Med. 2011;45:1106–12.
53. Eichna LW, Park CR, Nelson N, et al. Thermal regulation during acclimatization in a hot, dry (desert type) environment. Am J Physiol. 1950;163:585–97.
54. Midgley AW, McNaughton LR, Wilkinson M. Is there an optimal training intensity for enhancing the maximal oxygen uptake of distance runners? Sports Med. 2006;36:117–32.
55. Hue O, Antoine-Jonville S, Sara F. The effect of 8 days of training in tropical environment on performance in neutral climate in swimmers. Int J Sports Med. 2007;28:48–52.
56. Morrison JP, Hopkins WG, Sleivert GG. Little effect of training in the heat on cycling. Sportscience. 2002. Available from: http://www.sportsci.org/jour/0201/jpm.htm. Accessed 18 Feb 2014.
57. Taylor NA, Cotter JD. Heat adaptation: guidelines for the optimisation of human performance: review article. Int Sport Med J. 2006;7:33–57.
58. Shapiro Y, Hubbard RW, Kimbrough CM, et al. Physiological and hematologic responses to summer and winter dry-heat acclimation. J Appl Physiol. 1981;50:792–8.
59. Hopkins WG, Hawley JA, Burke LM. Design and analysis of research on sport performance enhancement. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1999;31:472–85.
60. Bassett JR, Kyle CR, Passfield L, et al. Comparing cycling world hour records, 1967–1996: modelling with empirical data. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1999;31:1665–7.
61. Atkinson G, Davison R, Jeukendrup A, et al. Science and cycling: current knowledge and future directions for research. J Sport Sci. 2003;21:767–87.
62. Garrett AT, Goosens NG, Rehrer NJ, et al. Short-term heat acclimation is effective and may be enhanced rather than impaired by dehydration. Am J Hum Biol. 2014;26:311–20.
63. Tipton M. A case for combined environmental stressor studies. Extrem Physiol Med. 2012;1:1–2.