The effects of compression garments on intermittent exercise performance and recovery on consecutive days
Autor: | Emma Hawke, Matthew J. Barnes, Johann Edge, Nicholas D. Gill, Rob Duffield, David C. Simcock, Robert J. Merrells |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Team sport medicine.medical_treatment Football Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Compression stockings Body Mass Index law.invention Randomized controlled trial Heart Rate law Task Performance and Analysis Heart rate Exercise performance medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Creatine Kinase Analysis of Variance Exercise Tolerance biology Muscle fatigue business.industry Compression (physics) Muscle Fatigue Physical therapy biology.protein Creatine kinase business Stockings Compression |
Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
Popis: | Purpose:The aim of this study was to determine whether compression garments improve intermittent-sprint performance and aid performance or self-reported recovery from high-intensity efforts on consecutive days.Methods:Following familiarization, 14 male rugby players performed two randomized testing conditions (with or without garments) involving consecutive days of a simulated team sport exercise protocol, separated by 24 h of recovery within each condition and 2 weeks between conditions. Each day involved an 80-min high-intensity exercise circuit, with exercise performance determined by repeated 20-m sprints and peak power on a cart dynamometer (single-man scrum machine). Measures of nude mass, heart rate, skin and tympanic temperature, and blood lactate (La−) were recorded throughout each day; also, creatine kinase (CK) and muscle soreness were recorded each day and 48 h following exercise.Results:No differences (P = .20 to 0.40) were present between conditions on either day of the exercise protocol for repeated 20-m sprint efforts or peak power on a cart dynamometer. Heart rate, tympanic temperature, and body mass did not significantly differ between conditions; however, skin temperature was higher under the compression garments. Although no differences (P = .50) in La− or CK were present, participants felt reduced levels of perceived muscle soreness in the ensuing 48 h postexercise when wearing the garments (2.5 ± 1.7 vs 3.5 ± 2.1 for garment and control; P = .01).Conclusions:The use of compression garments did not improve or hamper simulated team-sport activity on consecutive days. Despite benefits of reduced self-reported muscle soreness when wearing garments during and following exercise each day, no improvements in performance or recovery were apparent. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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