Thermal adjustment to cold-water exposure in exercising men and women
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Applied Physiology
- Vol. 56 (6) , 1572-1577
- https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1984.56.6.1572
Abstract
Thermoregulatory responses were studied in 10 men and 8 women during 36-W exercise for 1 h in air and water at 20, 24 and 28.degree. C. Men were classified as high (27.6%; n = 2), average (16.8%; n = 4) and low (9.2%; n = 4) percent body fat, whereas women were classified as average (25.2%; n = 4) and low (18.5%; n = 4) fat. For both men and women, exercise of about 1.7 l O2 .cntdot. min-1 was beneficial in either preventing or retarding the fall in rectal temperature (Tre) observed in a previous study for the same subjects at rest. The greatest thermal strain was noted for the leanest subjects. In no instance did exercise facilitate a drop in Tre compared with resting conditions. Despite a larger surface area-to-mass ratio (P < 0.05) and less effective thermoregulation for women at rest compared with men, essentially similar thermoregulatory responses were observed for both sexes during exercise at each water temperature. For both the men and women, the thermoregulatory benefits of exercise were due largely to the added heat production from physical activity. For the female, an additional benefit of exercise may in part be derived from a more favorable distribution of subcutaneous fat over the active musculature.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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