Water Redistribution in The Body and Muscles of Young Athletes After a Single Workout Complemented by Water Intake

Background and aim: Individuals practising a sporting activity in the long term show significant changes in the relative masses of fat tissue and other water-containing physiological structures, particularly muscles. Such longitudinal changes of the body composition activated and sustained by sports practices are documented to be health-promoting (in non-agonistic) and performance-improving (in agonistic). However, short-time mass indices variation after each session of sporting activity is limited and inconclusive. It would be worth assessing the effectiveness of the training protocol in sports players for real-time interventions. Hence, our study primarily aims at establishing a post-session evaluation of body index variation. Furthermore, it aims to clarify how a specific training modality affects the body compartments and if the changes affect men and women to the same extent or not.