Effect of repeated post-resistance exercise cold or hot water immersion on in-season inflammatory responses in academy rugby players: a randomised controlled cross-over design.
Barry G HorganNicholas P WestNicolin TeeShona L HalsonEric J DrinkwaterDale W ChapmanGuy Gregory HaffPublished in: European journal of applied physiology (2024)
Post-resistance exercise CWI or HWI resulted in trivial and moderate reductions in CK, respectively, which may be partly due to hydrostatic effects of water immersion. Post-resistance exercise HWI moderately decreased IL-1ra, which may be associated with post-resistance exercise skeletal muscle inflammation influencing chronic resistance exercise adaptive responses. Following post-resistance exercise water immersion, CWI increased HSP-72 suggesting a thermoregulatory response indicating improved adaptive inflammatory responses to temperature changes, while HWI increased growth factors (PDGF-BB, IGF-1) indicating different systematic signalling pathway activation. Our data supports the continued use of post-resistance exercise water immersion recovery strategies of any temperature during in-season competition phases for improved inflammatory adaptive responses in athletes.
Keyphrases
- high intensity
- physical activity
- resistance training
- skeletal muscle
- oxidative stress
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- metabolic syndrome
- cell proliferation
- adipose tissue
- insulin resistance
- body composition
- big data
- systemic sclerosis
- signaling pathway
- heat stress
- angiotensin ii
- binding protein
- vascular smooth muscle cells
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