Effects of Chronic Supplementation of L-Arginine on Physical Fitness in Water Polo Players

Table 1

Anthropometric, physical, and biochemical characteristics of the study population.

	Baseline		4 weeks
	Control	L-Arginine	Control	L-Arginine
Age (yrs)
Height (cm)
Weight (kg)
BMI (kg/m^2)
CPK (μL/L)
IGF1 (μM/L)
Dynamometer (N)
Time to 200 mt (sec)
Basal lactates (μU/L)
Postexercise lactates (μU/L)

BMI: body mass index; CPK: creatine phosphokinase; IGF1: insulin-like growth factor.