A study on the conditioning for sports athletes during summer season

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26350744
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: Kyoto Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Yoshida Tetsuya 京都工芸繊維大学, 基盤科学系, 教授 (00191601)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 高温環境 / パフォーマンス / 環境温度 / 練習時間 / 発汗量 / 暑熱適応能力 / 栄養管理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The final gore of this study is the upbringing of the sports athletes who can tolerate in the heat, the conditioning of the high school and college sports athletes were investigated in the summer season. As the results of this investigation, both the longer practice time in summer than in the other season and reduction of food intake was the main factors causing the decrement of exercise performance. These results suggest that the reduction of heat stress and controlling the nutrient intake is important to maintain exercise performance in sports athletes during summer season.

Free Research Field

環境・運動生理学