Snippit Sports Science Podcast

Snippit is made possible by listeners like you. Please help support the podcast: ► https://www.patreon.com/snippitscience      We hope you enjoyed our first podcast. As we mentioned in the first episode, this podcast has been the culmination of quite a long time talking about this concept. To see this come to fruition gives us both a big buzz.  As with all podcasts, we realise that the content is important but also how it is packaged together.  We have some cool ideas to keep this concept fresh so stay tuned. This week’s podcast delves into the concept of passive heat maintenance (PHM) in elite swimmers.  The concept of PHM around warm-up and competitive performance is simple: One of the benefits of warm-up is an increase in muscle temperature From cessation of warm-up, we start to lose muscle temperature For every 1 degree C in muscle temperature we lose (or gain), there is a 4% loss (or gain) in power output Within 20 min, you can lose 45% of heat gained by warm-up, and by 45 min, any gain in muscle temper