Snippit Sports Science Podcast

Snippit is made possible by listeners like you. Please help support the podcast: ► https://www.patreon.com/snippitscience    It was great having Alex Natera on our podcast last week.  We believe that having an author on the podcast gave a greater depth into the article itself.  We hope to have more of these special guests as time and availability permits.   Today’s podcast discusses the paper: European Journal of Applied Physiology February 2016, Volume 116, Issue 2, pp 395–404 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00421-015-3294-6   Post-warm-up muscle temperature maintenance: blood flow contribution and external heating optimisation Margherita Raccuglia Alex Lloyd Davide Filingeri Steve H. Faulkner Simon Hodder George Havenith First Online: 21 November 2015   Abstract   Purpose Passive muscle heating has been shown to reduce the drop in post-warm-up muscle temperature (T m) by about 25 % over 30 min, with concomitant sprint/power performance improvements. We sought to determine the role of leg blood f