Self-paced exercise performance in the heat with neck cooling, menthol application, and abdominal cooling.

摘要: Abstract Objectives To investigate whether the exercise performance benefits with neck cooling in heat are attributable to neck-specific cooling, general body a cooler site-specific thermal perception or combination of above. Design Counter-balanced crossover design. Methods Twelve healthy participants cycled (34 °C, 30% relative humidity), at power output (PO) self-selected maintain fixed rating perceived exertion (RPE) 16. Each participant underwent four experimental trials: no (CON), (NEC), abdominal (ABD), menthol (MEN). Participants for 90 min until their workload reduced by Results The mean reduction PO throughout was similar (p = 0.431) CON (175 ± 10 W), NEC (176 ±12 W), ABD (172 ± 13 W) and MEN (174 ± 12 W). ΔTre end (p = 0.874) (0.83 ± 0.5 °C), (0.85 ± 0.5 °C), (0.82 ± 0.5 °C) (0.81 ± 0.5 °C). TSwb (p  Conclusions No differences strain were observed any trials compared trial, despite significantly values trial. These findings differ from previous observations highlight that benefit may be situation dependent.