CHO solutions. Therefore coaches and practitioners, who are considering incorporating CHO mouth-rinsing strategies as means to enhance competition performance and/or training capacity, should carefully evaluate their training and competition environments. This will enable them to make a decision on the appropriateness and inclusion of mouth-rinsing strategies within the portfolio of their ergogenic strategies. In particular, special emphasis should be placed on personalising dietary and fluid strategies before and during exercise for both training and competition; since both dietary and fluid intakes can have a greater impact on endurance performance than CHO mouth-rinsing alone. Mouth-rinsing protocols of longer duration (i.e. 10-sec) and of higher frequency (i.e. 5-min) can potentially be more effective than the current protocol when exercise duration is approximately 1-h. However, mouth-rinsing more frequently and for longer durations may not be practical in a host of athletic settings. Alternatively, water intake alongside ad-libitum CHO mouth-rinsing protocols may be more effective than mouth-rinsing alone however this is still to be confirmed. In conclusion, coaches and practitioners should be sceptical of adopting a conventional mouth-rinsing protocol as means to optimise sports performance in the postprandial period; however other options may exist. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank all of the subjects for their time and effort. The authors have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the contents of this manuscript. REFERENCES
CHO solutions. Therefore coaches and practitioners, who are considering incorporating CHO mouth-rinsing strategies as means to enhance competition performance and/or training capacity, should carefully evaluate their training and competition environments. This will enable them to make a decision on the appropriateness and inclusion of mouth-rinsing strategies within the portfolio of their ergogenic strategies. In particular, special emphasis should be placed on personalising dietary and fluid strategies before and during exercise for both training and competition; since both dietary and fluid intakes can have a greater impact on endurance performance than CHO mouth-rinsing alone. Mouth-rinsing protocols of longer duration (i.e. 10-sec) and of higher frequency (i.e. 5-min) can potentially be more effective than the current protocol when exercise duration is approximately 1-h. However, mouth-rinsing more frequently and for longer durations may not be practical in a host of athletic settings. Alternatively, ad-libitum water intake alongside CHO mouth-rinsing protocols may be more effective than mouth-rinsing alone however this is still to be confirmed. In conclusion, coaches and practitioners should be sceptical of adopting a conventional mouth-rinsing protocol as means to optimise sports performance in the postprandial period; however other options may exist. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank all of the subjects for their time and effort. The authors have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the contents of this manuscript. REFERENCES