Importance of Electrolytes in Exercise Performance and Assessment Methodology After Heat Training: A Narrative Review
Performing exercise in hot environmental conditions presents athletes with potential negative physiological and perceptual implications. Key constituents, such as fluid and electrolytes, are lost during sweating through the process of cooling the human body. The loss of electrolytes impairs exercise...
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| description | Performing exercise in hot environmental conditions presents athletes with potential negative physiological and perceptual implications. Key constituents, such as fluid and electrolytes, are lost during sweating through the process of cooling the human body. The loss of electrolytes impairs exercise performance. Heat training is one strategy to combat sweat electrolyte loss, with decreased sweat electrolyte concentration being a main sudomotor adaptation. To measure sweat electrolyte concentration, two common assessment methods are typically utilized: whole-body washdown and regional sweat patch measurements. The effects of physiological adaptations and sweat electrolyte assessment methodology have been investigated; however, the importance of methodological differences between sweat electrolyte measurements following heat training has yet to be explored. This review explores the differences between sweat electrolyte measurement techniques following adaptations incurred with heat training. Future research directions are also provided. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-774afeb05e9d4ded9fb8edb7b420976c2024-11-26T17:47:30ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172024-11-0114221010310.3390/app142210103Importance of Electrolytes in Exercise Performance and Assessment Methodology After Heat Training: A Narrative ReviewMarcos S. Keefe0Courteney L. Benjamin1Douglas J. Casa2Yasuki Sekiguchi3Sports Performance Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USADepartment of Kinesiology, Samford University, Birmingham, AL 35229, USADepartment of Kinesiology, Korey Stringer Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USASports Performance Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USAPerforming exercise in hot environmental conditions presents athletes with potential negative physiological and perceptual implications. Key constituents, such as fluid and electrolytes, are lost during sweating through the process of cooling the human body. The loss of electrolytes impairs exercise performance. Heat training is one strategy to combat sweat electrolyte loss, with decreased sweat electrolyte concentration being a main sudomotor adaptation. To measure sweat electrolyte concentration, two common assessment methods are typically utilized: whole-body washdown and regional sweat patch measurements. The effects of physiological adaptations and sweat electrolyte assessment methodology have been investigated; however, the importance of methodological differences between sweat electrolyte measurements following heat training has yet to be explored. This review explores the differences between sweat electrolyte measurement techniques following adaptations incurred with heat training. Future research directions are also provided.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/22/10103electrolyteheatexercise |
| spellingShingle | Marcos S. Keefe Courteney L. Benjamin Douglas J. Casa Yasuki Sekiguchi Importance of Electrolytes in Exercise Performance and Assessment Methodology After Heat Training: A Narrative Review Applied Sciences electrolyte heat exercise |
| title | Importance of Electrolytes in Exercise Performance and Assessment Methodology After Heat Training: A Narrative Review |
| title_full | Importance of Electrolytes in Exercise Performance and Assessment Methodology After Heat Training: A Narrative Review |
| title_fullStr | Importance of Electrolytes in Exercise Performance and Assessment Methodology After Heat Training: A Narrative Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Importance of Electrolytes in Exercise Performance and Assessment Methodology After Heat Training: A Narrative Review |
| title_short | Importance of Electrolytes in Exercise Performance and Assessment Methodology After Heat Training: A Narrative Review |
| title_sort | importance of electrolytes in exercise performance and assessment methodology after heat training a narrative review |
| topic | electrolyte heat exercise |
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