Potassium Measurements During Hypokinesia and Ambulation in Establishing Potassium Changes in Trained and Untrained Subjects

Studies were done during 30-days pre-HK period and 364-days HK period. Forty males trained, and untrained individuals aged, 24.4±7.5 years were chosen as subjects. They were equally divided into four groups: trained ambulatory control subjects (TACS), trained hypokinetic subjects (THKS), untrained ambulatory control subjects (UACS) and untrained hypokinetic subjects (UHKS). Both THKS and UHKS of subjects were limited to an average walking distance of 0.3 km.day. The TACS and UACS were running an average distance of 9.7 and 1.7 km.day, respectively. Subjects took daily, 95 mEq potassium chloride per kg body weight.