Table 1 Yoyo Intermittent Recovery Test (level 1) results for completed shuttles, blood lactate and heart rate following the control (CON), cold water immersion performed immediately after exercise (CWI(0)) and cold water immersion performed 3 h following exercise (CWI(3)) trials. Values are means (±SD, n = 8).
CON CWI(0) CWI(3)
Shuttles completed 32.4 (5.0) 37.9 (8.6) * 35.7 (7.8)
Plasma blood lactate (mmol∙L-1) 7.4 (1.6) 7.3 (1.4) 7.5 (1.2)
Heart rate (bpm) 185 (9) 187 (10) 186 (7)
* significantly (p < 0.05) different from CON