Novel Pre-Cooling Strategy Enhances Time Trial Cycling In the Heat

Australian researcher tried to develop and investigate the efficacy of a new pre-cooling strategy combining external and internal techniques on performance of a cycling time trial in a hot and humid environment.

Fasting and physical performance

If the human body copes well with short duration fasting, it is not the same for periodic fasting. Even when water intake is allowed, fasting for more than about 12–24 h will generally have negative effects on cognitive and physical performance.

Sodium bicarbonate ingestion and boxing performance.

Boxing is a sport that consists of small intense sequences interspersed with short periods of recovery. Thus, it is a sport for which a pre-exercise alkalosis may be beneficial. This is what we wanted to verify a team of British researchers.

Folic acid supplementation and amenorrheic women athletes.

Sometimes, young sportswomen do not eat enough to remain thin and efficient. If their calories intake is very low, menstruations can stop like a postmenopausal woman because of low estrogen levels.

This can have repercussions on their health : osteoporosis but also heart diseases because of bad vascular function.