Muscle cooling: too much of a good thing?

Affiliations

¹ Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom St Campus, Liverpool, UK.
² Division of Sport, Exercise and Nutritional Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.

C Mawhinney et al. J Physiol. 2018.

. 2018 Mar 1;596(5):765-767.

doi: 10.1113/JP275695. Epub 2018 Jan 25.

¹ Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom St Campus, Liverpool, UK.
² Division of Sport, Exercise and Nutritional Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: cooling; glycogen; muscle.

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