YOUNG, ANDREW J., MICHAEL N. SAWKA, MARK D. QUIG-then training in hot water might produce different adap-LEY, BRUCE S. CADARETTE, P. DARRELL NEUFER, RICHARD C. tations than training in cold water.
DENNIS, AND C. ROBERT VALERI. Role of thermal factors on aer-For example, accumulation of muscle metabolites durobic capacity improvements with endurance training. J. Appl. ing exercise is more pronounced in hot than cool environPhysiol. 75(1): [49][50][51][52][53][54] 1993.-This investigation studied the im-mental conditions, possibly as a result of effects of eleportance of the rise in body temperature during exercise for vated muscle temperature or a redistribution of blood aerobic capacity adaptations produced by endurance training. muscle tempe rate or a edistribu tiono The approach used was to compare training effects produced flow from muscle to skin on rates of metabolic reactions by subjects exercising in hot (35°C) water vs. cold (20'C) water. (27). It has been theorized that one stimulus for trainingHot water was used to potentiate, and cold water to blunt, the induced adaptations in muscle metabolism is the alterrise in body temperature during exercise. Eighteen young men ation in intracellular homeostasis that occurs during trained by cycle-ergometer exercise at 60% of maximal oxygen muscular activity as cellular metabolism generates enuptake (Vo 2 .. ) while immersed to the neck in either hot ergy to sustain the contractile process (12). Therefore, (HWT, n = 9) or cold (CWT, n = 9) water for 60 min, 5 days/ during exercise in hot water a more pronounced alterwk, for 8 wk. Before and after training, Vo,,..., erythrocyte ation in intracellular homeostasis compared with exervolume, plasma volume, and vastus lateralis citrate synthase cise in cold water might augment the stimulus for metaactivity were measured. Training increased (P < 0.01) V0 2 ... bolic adaptations to training. Also, whereas cardiac outby 13%, with no difference between HWT and CWT in the magnitude of the effect. Erythrocyte volume increased 4% (P < put during exercise at a given oxygen uptake (V0 2 ) is the 0.01) with training, with no difference between HWT and CWT same in cold and hot water, heart rate is lower, but stroke in the magnitude of the effect. Plasma volume remained un-volume higher, during exercise in cold than hot water changed by training in both the HWT and CWT groups. Last, (17). These differences could cause adaptations in carvastus lateralis citrate synthase activity increased by 38% with diac responses to exercise that differ from endurance training, but there was no difference between HWT and CWT training in hot vs. cold water. Furthermore, endurance in the training effect. Thus, exercisc-induced body temperature training reportedly results in an increase in blood volume elevations are not an important stimulus for the aerobic adapta-due to an increase in plasma and erythrocyte volume (7). tions to moderate-intensity endurance training.Hypervolemia and plasma volume expansion have also been observed to result from rep...