P The Effects of Cooling Core Body Temperature on Overall Strength Gains and Post - Exercise Recovery

57 Cooling Body Temperature Heat is the byproduct of metabolic reactions, with nearly 75% of energy created released as heat. This paper evaluates two studies investigating the effects of cooling core body temperature on overall strength gains and post-exercise recovery. The first study evaluates the effectiveness of cooling before, during and post-exercise on performance and recovery. Results show that lowering core body temperature results in lower overall relative oxygen consumption during prolonged exercise. The second study evaluated the effects of intermittent cooling between bouts of maximal exercise and different conditions of postexercise conditions of cooling. Results show that a majority of subjects improve on treatment, supporting the theory that temperature is a limiting factor of exercise though responses to cooling treatments are individualistic.