RESEARCH ARTICLE
Pomegranate Supplementation Accelerates Recovery of Muscle Damage and Soreness and Inflammatory Markers after a Weightlifting Training Session Achraf Ammar1,2*, Mouna Turki3, Hamdi Chtourou1,4, Omar Hammouda3,5, Khaled Trabelsi6, Choumous Kallel7, Osama Abdelkarim2, Anita Hoekelmann2, Mohamed Bouaziz8,9, Fatma Ayadi3, Tarak Driss5, Nizar Souissi10
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1 Research Unit: Education, Motricite´, Sport et Sante´, UR15JS01, High Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia, 2 Institute of Sport Science, Otto-von-GuerickeUniversity Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, 3 Laboratory of Biochemistry, CHU Habib Bourguiba, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia, 4 High Institute of Sport and Physical Education, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia, 5 Research Center on Sport and Movement (EA 2931), University of Paris Ouest La Defense, Nanterre, France, 6 Laboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia, 7 Laboratory of Hematology, CHU Habib Bourguiba, Sfax, Tunisia, 8 Electrochemistry and Environment Laboratory, ENIS, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia, 9 High Institute of Biotechnology, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia, 10 National Observatory of Sport, Tunis, Tunisia * [email protected]
OPEN ACCESS Citation: Ammar A, Turki M, Chtourou H, Hammouda O, Trabelsi K, Kallel C, et al. (2016) Pomegranate Supplementation Accelerates Recovery of Muscle Damage and Soreness and Inflammatory Markers after a Weightlifting Training Session. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0160305. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0160305 Editor: Gordon Fisher, University of Alabama at Birmingham, UNITED STATES
Abstract Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of natural Pomegranate juice supplementation on performance and acute and delayed responses of muscle soreness and biomarkers of muscle damage after a weightlifting training session.
Received: February 1, 2016 Accepted: July 18, 2016 Published: October 20, 2016 Copyright: © 2016 Ammar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files. Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Methods Nine elite weightlifters (21±0.5 years) performed two Olympic-Weightlifting-sessions after either placebo (PLA) or natural pomegranate juice (POMj) supplementations. Heart rate, blood pressure and blood samples (hematological parameters, muscle damage and Creactive protein (CRP)) were collected at rest, 3min and 48h after each session. Weightlifting performance, RPE, and DOMS were also assessed after each training session.
Results T-test showed higher performance (+8.30%) and lower RPE values (-4.37%) using POMj supplementation (p
Pomegranate Supplementation Accelerates Recovery of Muscle Damage and Soreness and Inflammatory Markers after a Weightlifting Training Session Achraf Ammar1,2*, Mouna Turki3, Hamdi Chtourou1,4, Omar Hammouda3,5, Khaled Trabelsi6, Choumous Kallel7, Osama Abdelkarim2, Anita Hoekelmann2, Mohamed Bouaziz8,9, Fatma Ayadi3, Tarak Driss5, Nizar Souissi10
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1 Research Unit: Education, Motricite´, Sport et Sante´, UR15JS01, High Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia, 2 Institute of Sport Science, Otto-von-GuerickeUniversity Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, 3 Laboratory of Biochemistry, CHU Habib Bourguiba, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia, 4 High Institute of Sport and Physical Education, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia, 5 Research Center on Sport and Movement (EA 2931), University of Paris Ouest La Defense, Nanterre, France, 6 Laboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia, 7 Laboratory of Hematology, CHU Habib Bourguiba, Sfax, Tunisia, 8 Electrochemistry and Environment Laboratory, ENIS, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia, 9 High Institute of Biotechnology, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia, 10 National Observatory of Sport, Tunis, Tunisia * [email protected]
OPEN ACCESS Citation: Ammar A, Turki M, Chtourou H, Hammouda O, Trabelsi K, Kallel C, et al. (2016) Pomegranate Supplementation Accelerates Recovery of Muscle Damage and Soreness and Inflammatory Markers after a Weightlifting Training Session. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0160305. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0160305 Editor: Gordon Fisher, University of Alabama at Birmingham, UNITED STATES
Abstract Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of natural Pomegranate juice supplementation on performance and acute and delayed responses of muscle soreness and biomarkers of muscle damage after a weightlifting training session.
Received: February 1, 2016 Accepted: July 18, 2016 Published: October 20, 2016 Copyright: © 2016 Ammar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files. Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Methods Nine elite weightlifters (21±0.5 years) performed two Olympic-Weightlifting-sessions after either placebo (PLA) or natural pomegranate juice (POMj) supplementations. Heart rate, blood pressure and blood samples (hematological parameters, muscle damage and Creactive protein (CRP)) were collected at rest, 3min and 48h after each session. Weightlifting performance, RPE, and DOMS were also assessed after each training session.
Results T-test showed higher performance (+8.30%) and lower RPE values (-4.37%) using POMj supplementation (p
