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Muscle Temperature and Hydration Effects

Higher muscle temperatures do not affect maximal muscle contraction but do reduce power output. Overheating muscles increases metabolic rate which can cause muscle fatigue over time. Lowering muscle temperature before exercise can help maintain power and endurance by reducing cardiovascular strain, lactic acid, and slower glycogen depletion. Dehydration from sweating of more than 5% body weight does not affect strength or reaction time for short periods but poses risks for heat exhaustion from fluid volume depletion. Drinking plain water counters water loss, while diluted sugar drinks for longer activities helps delay fatigue by preserving glycogen and improving electrolyte absorption.

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Muscle Temperature and Hydration Effects

Higher muscle temperatures do not affect maximal muscle contraction but do reduce power output. Overheating muscles increases metabolic rate which can cause muscle fatigue over time. Lowering muscle temperature before exercise can help maintain power and endurance by reducing cardiovascular strain, lactic acid, and slower glycogen depletion. Dehydration from sweating of more than 5% body weight does not affect strength or reaction time for short periods but poses risks for heat exhaustion from fluid volume depletion. Drinking plain water counters water loss, while diluted sugar drinks for longer activities helps delay fatigue by preserving glycogen and improving electrolyte absorption.

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Effects on Muscles

• An increase in muscle temperature above


normal does not affect the maximal isometric
contraction capability of muscle tissue, but
the power output of muscles is reduced at
higher (and lower) temperatures. Over
heating of muscles accelerates the metabolic
rate, which can make a muscle ineffective if it
must work over some period of time.
• Lowering the muscle temperature before
exercising can counteract the loss of power
and endurance stemming from excessive
muscle temperature. Lowering the
temperature reduces the cardio vascular strain
and lactic acid concentration in the blood and
depletes muscles glycogen at a slower rate.
Dehydration
• When working in the environment the body
loses water by sweating. Even acute water
loss, incured in the short time (say, a few
hours or less), called hypohydration, does not
reduce isometric muscle strength (or reaction
time) if the water loss less than 5% of the
body weight. However, fast and large water
losses generate the risk of heat exhaustion,
which comes about primarily through a
depletion of fluid volumes in the body.
• To counteract water loss, one most drink fluid,
plain water is the best. If strenuous activities
longer than one or two hours, diluted sugar
activities may help to postpone the
development of fatigue by reducing the body's
utilization of muscle glycogen and improving
fluid electrolyte absorption in the small
intestine. Regular, liberally salted food is
normally sufficient to counteract salt loss.

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