Antioxidant nutrients have demonstrated potential in protecting against exercise-induced oxidative stress. alpha-Lipoic acid (LA) is a proglutathione dietary supplement that is known to strengthen the antioxidant network. We studied the effect of intragastric LA supplementation (150 mg/kg, 8 wk) on tissue LA levels, glutathione metabolism, and lipid peroxidation in rats at rest and after exhaus...

Sustained swimming at 0.9 BL s(-)(1), where BL is fork body length, following a bout of exhaustive exercise enhanced recovery of metabolite and acid-base status in rainbow trout compared with fish held in still water. The most striking effect of an active recovery was a total absence of the elevation cortisol concentration typically associated with exhaustive exercise. In fish swimming at 0. 9 ...

The hypothesis investigated whether exercise performance over a broad range of intensities is determined by specific skeletal muscle characteristics. Seven subjects performed 8-10 exhaustive cycle trials at different workloads, ranging from 150 to 700 W (150 min to 20 s). No relationships between the performance times at high and low workloads were observed. A relationship (P < 0.05) was notice...

BACKGROUND The ability to sustain intense exercise seems to be partially limited by the body's capability to counteract decreases in both intra- and extracellular pH. While the influence of an enhanced buffering capacity via sodium bicarbonate (BICA) on short-term, high-intensity exercise performance has been repeatedly investigated, studies on prolonged endurance performances are comparatively...

conclusions the findings suggest that estrogen supplementation increases damage in testicular tissue due to eccentric exercise. results conventional light microscopic results revealed that testes tissues of the eccentric exercise administered group and the estrogen supplemented group exhibited slight impairment. in groups that were both eccentrically exercised and estrogen supplemented, more de...