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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 315, Issue 5, Pages R925-R933Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00178.2018
Keywords
exercise; recovery; thermoafferent feedback; thermoregulation; thermoregulatory behavior
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- lululemon athletica inc
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We tested the hypothesis that mean skin wettedness contributes to thermal behavior to a greater extent than core and mean skin temperatures. In a 27.0 +/- 1.0 degrees C environment. 16 young participants (8 females) cycled for 30 min at 281 +/- 51 W.m(2), followed by 120 min of seated recovery. Mean skin and core temperatures and mean skin wettedness were recorded continuously. Participants maintained a thermally comfortable neck temperature throughout the protocol using a custom-made device. Neck device temperature provided an index of thermal behavior. Linear regression was performed using individual minute data with mean skin wettedness and core and mean skin temperatures as independent variables and neck device temperature as the dependent variable. Standarized beta-coefficients were used to determine relative contributions to thermal behavior. Mean skin temperature differed from preexercise (32.6 +/- 0.5 degrees C) to 10 min into exercise (32.3 +/- 0.6 degrees C, P < 0.01). Core temperature increased from 37.1 +/- 0.3 degrees C preexercise to 37.7 +/- 0.4 degrees C by end exercise (P < 0.01) and remained elevated through 30 min of recovery (37.2 +/- 0.3 degrees C, P < 0.01). Mean skin wettedness increased from preexercise [0.14 +/- 0.03 arbitrary units (AU)] to 20 min into exercise (0.43 +/- 0.09 AU, P < 0.01) and remained elevated through 80 min of recovery (0.18 +/- 0.06 AU, P <= 0.05). Neck device temperature decreased from 26.4 +/- 1.6 degrees C preexercise to 18.5 +/- 8.7 degrees C 10 min into exercise (P = 0.03) and remained depressed through 20 min of recovery (14.4 +/- 11.2 degrees C, P < 0.01). Mean skin wettedness (52 +/- 24%) provided a greater contribution to thermal behavior compared with core (22 +/- 22%, P = 0.06) and mean skin (26 +/- 16%, P = 0.04) temperatures. Skin wettedness is an important contributing factor to thermal behavior during exercise and recovery.
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