Hot water immersion as a strategy to promote post-exercise recovery in healthy young men.

Water immersion is a frequently applied strategy to accelerate post-exercise recovery in both recreational as well as professional athletes. Another important recovery strategy for athletes is to ingest proper post-exercise nutrition (i.e., protein and carbohydrate) in order to replete endogenous glycogen stores and augment the skeletal muscle adaptive response to exercise. However, it is not clear what the acute effect is of post-exercise heating (hot-water immersion; HWI) on muscle protein synthesis and glycogen repletion following food ingestion.

We hypothesize that post-exercise HWI increases muscle protein synthesis rates.

Muscle biopsies will be taken at timepoints: 0, 2 and 5 h after ingestion of the beverages

Hot water immersion after exercise with ingesting milk proteins and carbohydrates