Physiologic responses of firefighter recruits during a supervised live-fire work performance test

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2396-2404

  Del Sal, Marta ^a   Barbieri, Elena ^a   Garbati, Paolo ^b   Sisti, Davide ^a   Rocchi, Marco B L ^a   Stocchi, Vilberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b Aeroporto G Vassura   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Energy expenditure; Firefighter's tasks; Galvanic skin response; Heart rate; Skin temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE; FIRE; HEART RATE; HEAT; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENERGY METABOLISM; FIRES; HEART RATE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; ITALY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449339794     PISSN: 10648011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181bb72c0     Document Type: Article

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