Happy New Year everyone.

We hope this post finds you well.  Today's podcast continues our current theme on the role of heat with respect to all things sports science. This episode looks at the role of passive heat on muscle hypertrophy and neuromuscular performance outcomes. This is a review so it covers a wide breadth of quality academic articles.  We hope you enjoy it and look forward to bringing you more articles over the coming year.

 

Effects of Passive Heating Intervention on Muscle Hypertrophy and Neuromuscular Function: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis

Objective: To synthesise the evidence on the effects of passive heating on muscle hypertrophy and neuromuscular function.

Methods: Seven databases were searched using combinations of the terms: passive heating, muscle hypertrophy and neuromuscular function. Eligible studies included original papers using healthy animals or human samples (≥ 18 years) that have used a control group or condition. Studies involving combined interventions or applied passive heating as a recovery strategy for exercise were excluded.

Results: After duplicates had been removed the search generated 1,747 references. Of these, the criteria were met by eight studies in the systematic review and four studies were used to perform the meta-analysis. The meta-analysis detected an increase in muscle mass in animal samples seven days after passive heating (I2= 65%, P= 0.00001). The systematic review showed some preliminary evidence, such as, muscle hypertrophy was reported after chronic passive heat intervention in animals and humans, augmented muscle strength was observed.

 

 

 

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