| | SSE #50: Fluid and Carbohydrate Replacement During Exercise: How Much and Why? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Fluid ingestion equal to the rate of sweating was more effective than voluntary or partial fluid replacement (Bean and Eichna, 1943; Eichna et al., 1945; Pitts et al., 1944). |
 | | The primary benefit of sufficient fluid replacement during exercise is that it helps to maintain cardiac output and allows blood flow to the skin to increase to high levels so as to promote heat dissipation from the skin, thereby preventing excessive storage of body heat (Montain and Coyle, 1992a). |
 | | Fluid replacement does help to prevent loss of water from the blood plasma, but in endurance-trained athletes, this improved maintenance of plasma volume apparently does not by itself increase blood flow to the skin to reduce core temperature (Montain and Coyle, 199b). |
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