Advancing Age and the Cardiorespiratory Stress of Fire Suppression: Determining a Minimum Standard for Aerobic Fitness

The Influence of Age on Aerobic Capacity and Health Indicators of Three Rescue Groups

“…Burke and Dunbar-Jackobs warned that rescue groups' training (firefighters) should not solely focus on aerobic or endurance training and that strength should also be an important element [30]; different studies describe strength as important element of rescue groups' functioning [16,35,36,37]. In this study, strength training received the second highest amount of attention among the three rescue groups (Table 4); ~68% of the firefighters, 40% of the mine rescue workers and 13.5% of the lifeguards declared over 4 h a week of strength training.…”

Physiological and psychological responses in Fire Instructors to heat exposures

“…Decrements in FSI fitness of the sizes measured here may be of concern, as fitness affects thermoregulation and performance abilities. Where those who are less trained will take longer to complete tasks under heat stress, work at higher percentages of their V O 2max and therefore, reach exhaustion earlier or experience heat related illnesses sooner (Sothmann et al 1990).…”

Energy Cost of the Trondheim Firefighter Test for Experienced Firefighters

“…Fire fighting and rescue work may be very demanding for the cardiorespiratory system [6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28]. However, all these studies have some limitations in examining physical demands of real fire fighting.…”