Title: Heat Acclimatization to Improve Athletic Performance in Warm-Hot Environments
Headings: Heat Acclimatization to Improve Athletic Performance in Warm-Hot Environments
Heat Acclimatization to Improve Athletic Performance in Warm-Hot Environments
KEY POINTS
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION OF HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION
PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS
HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION STRATEGIES FOR ATHLETES
PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
SUMMARY
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Content: 2011). Thus, conducting physical exercise in warm-hot conditions induces elevated body temperature, cardiovascular strain and altered metabolism that can cause thermal discomfort, impaired aerobic performance and increased risk of serious heat illness (Nybo et al., 2014; Sawka et al., 2011). Heat acclimatization confers biological adjustments that reduce these negative effects of heat stress (Horowitz, 2014; Sawka et al., 1996, 2011; Taylor, 2014). Heat acclimatization, or acclimation, develops respectively through repeated natural (acclimatization) or artificial (acclimation) heat exposures that are sufficiently stressful to elevate both core and skin temperatures, that induce profuse sweating (Périard et al.,