Saeed Ilbeigi; Mohammad reza Ahmadi; Mohsen Mohammadnia Ahmadi; Hadi Moazzeni
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Background and Aim: Caffeine is a widely used physiological stimulant worldwide that athletes use to increase strength and delay fatigue, which is currently available in the form of energy drinks and dietary supplements. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of fatigue ...
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Background and Aim: Caffeine is a widely used physiological stimulant worldwide that athletes use to increase strength and delay fatigue, which is currently available in the form of energy drinks and dietary supplements. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of fatigue and caffeine supplementation on balance and some physical and skill fitness characteristics of young football players in Sarayan city. Materials and Methods: In this way, 24 football players with an age range of 18 to 25 years, at least four to five years of continuous activity were purposefully selected and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. All participants firstly performed the dynamic balance, explosive power (Sargent jump test), agility (Illinois test), and Moore–Christian shooting & passing performance test. Further, the experimental group received caffeine capsules (six mg/kg/day) and the control group received starch capsules (six mg/kg/day). Moreover, the Bangsbo protocol was performed with 42 of two-minute cycles to create simulated fatigue in football players. After the implementation of the fatigue protocol and similar to the pre-test, all the tests were repeated. The results were extracted using independent and dependent t-test at the significant level of p≤0.05. Results: Muscle fatigue significantly decreasing effect on dynamic balance (p=0.001), vertical jump (p=0.001), shooting skill (p=0.001), but no significantly changes were observed on agility (p=0.39) and passing skill (p=0.11), while caffeine had no effect on these changes. Conclusion: Consumption of six mg per kg of body weight caffeine may not have been effective and therefore, it seems that football players can improve their physical fitness characteristics from higher doses of caffeine instead of lower doses to be more effective. Further studies are needed to reach a definitive conclusion.
Mohsen Mohammadnia Ahmadi; Hamid Rajabi
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Background and Aim: Nowadays, cold-water immersion (CWI) has been established as a promising means to support recovery in high performance sports after highly intensive training bouts or competitions. There are many studies about effectiveness of acute CWI to support recovery after strenuous exercise, ...
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Background and Aim: Nowadays, cold-water immersion (CWI) has been established as a promising means to support recovery in high performance sports after highly intensive training bouts or competitions. There are many studies about effectiveness of acute CWI to support recovery after strenuous exercise, but the overall results seem to be conflicting. However, adaptational aspect has been widely neglected. Therefore, we analyzed the effects of immersion in cold and moderate water after resistance training on the some adaptations of strength training. Materials and Methods: In all, 32 male Sprague-Dawley rats (8-weeks) were assigned randomly into 4 equal groups including control (208.50±22.50 g), resistance training (208.87±26.70 g), resistance training + moderate water immersion (208.37±16.30 g.) and resistance training + cold water immersion (218.75±33.20 g) groups. The resistance training consisted of climbing (5 reps/3 sets) a ladder (120 cm) carrying load (equal to a percent of body weight) suspended from the tail. At last set (during 6 minute), rats in immersion water groups, immersed within container consisted water with 27˚C and 14˚C respectively. This process repeated 3 times a day during 8 weeks. At the first and last session, ladder climbing strength maximal was measured. Immediately after euthanasia (24 h after final training session), the flexor hallucis longus (FHL) and soleus muscles and subcutaneous-inguinal fat tissue was exposed and weighed. The data was analyzed with the one-way ANOWA method and significance level considered if pResults: Results showed that subcutaneous-inguinal fat (p=0.01), FHL and soleus weight (p=0.01) and maximal strength of ladder climbing (p=0.001) were significantly different in all studied group; so the best improvement was obvious at the resistance + moderate water immersion group. Conclusion: It is concluded that immersion in moderate water have a better impact on the strength training adaptations in rats.
