Female sex hormones and the recovery from exercise: Menstrual cycle phase affects responses


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Hackney A. C., Kallman A. L., AĞGÖN E.

BIOMEDICAL HUMAN KINETICS, cilt.11, sa.1, ss.87-89, 2019 (ESCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 11 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.2478/bhk-2019-0011
  • Dergi Adı: BIOMEDICAL HUMAN KINETICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.87-89
  • Erzincan Binali Yıldırım Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Study aim: Evidence supports female sex hormones have an influencing effect on a multitude of physiological and psychological systems related to exercise. Little is known, however, whether is effect persist into the recovery from exercise. Our objective was to examine aspects of muscle damage/inflammation process during recovery in healthy, exercise-trained women following endurance activity at the mid-follicular (MF; low sex hormone level) and mid-luteal (ML; elevated sex hormone levels) phases of their menstrual cycle.