Effect of short-term heat acclimation on endurance time and skin blood flow in trained athletes.

Background: To examine whether short-term, ie, five daily sessions, vigorous dynamic cycling exercise and heat exposure could achieve heat acclimation in trained athletes and the effect of heat acclimation on cutaneous blood flow in the active and nonactive limb.

Methods: Fourteen male badminton and table tennis athletes (age = 19.6 ± 1.

Effect of short-term upper-body resistance training on muscular strength, bone metabolic markers, and BMD in premenopausal women.

Unlabelled: To examine the effect of a 10-week upper-body resistance training program on bone turnover markers and site-specific bone mineral density (BMD) in the wrist and distal half of the ulna and radius in untrained and healthy young premenopausal women.

Methods: Twenty-two subjects (aged 22.1 ± 1.