Table 1.

Muscle temperature and metabolites pre-, immediately post- and 3.5 h post-exercise

	Pre-exercise	Post-exercise	3.5 h post-exercise
Muscle temperature (°C)	35.5 ± 0.36	37.8 ± 0.20**	36.3 ± 0.24
Lactate (mmol kg−1)	3.71 ± 0.93	54.06 ± 10.56**	4.24 ± 0.63
ATP (mmol kg−1)	22.50 ± 0.43	18.41 ± 1.14*	23.08 ± 0.54
CP (mmol kg−1)	69.78 ± 2.13	47.30 ± 5.23**	78.21 ± 1.52
Cr (mmol kg−1)	42.89 ± 2.28	65.38 ± 7.23**	32.88 ± 0.96

Values are means ±s.e.m. CP, creatine phosphate; Cr, creatine. ATP, CP and Cr have been corrected to total creatine.

^**Significantly different from pre-exercise, P≤ 0.01;

^*P≤ 0.02.