A quasi-experimental examination of weight-reducing dehydration practices in collegiate male rowers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lightweight rowers commonly utilize weight loss techniques over 24-h before competition to achieve the qualifying weight for racing. The objective was to investigate, using a quasi-experimental design, whether changes in weight resulting from dehydration practices are related to changes in proxies of bodily systems involved in rowing and whether these relationships depend on the dehydration technique used.

Methods

Twelve elite male rowers performed a power test, an incremental VO₂max test, and a visuomotor battery following: weight loss via thermal exposure, weight loss via fluid abstinence and then thermal exposure, and no weight loss. The total percent body mass change (%BMC), %BMC attributable to thermal exposure, and %BMC attributable to fluid absti

SUBMITTER: Kelly DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8466389 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature