{"id":333,"date":"2025-07-28T20:33:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/?p=333"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:36:37","slug":"consultancy-heat-acclimation-training-with-english-professional-football-referee-michael-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/2025\/07\/28\/consultancy-heat-acclimation-training-with-english-professional-football-referee-michael-oliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultancy: Heat acclimation training with English professional football referee Michael Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Michael attended our Laboratory at Newcastle University over a 4 week period scheduling in 7 heat sessions. The block was in preparation for refereeing games at the forthcoming FIFA Club World Cup football tournament in USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"974\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-18.36.42.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-345\" style=\"width:568px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-18.36.42.png 974w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-18.36.42-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-18.36.42-768x307.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael pictured training in the Environmental Chamber during a series of heat acclimation sessions for the upcoming Club World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"793\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2025\/07\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335\" style=\"width:572px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2025\/07\/image-1.png 793w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2025\/07\/image-1-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2025\/07\/image-1-768x441.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>English referee Michael Oliver in action during the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, round of 16 match between Flamengo and Bayer Munich, at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami where temperatures were reported as highs of 33<sup>o<\/sup>C and humidity was 60%RH (Heat stress index = 40<sup>o<\/sup>C).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/consultancy-heat-acclimation-training-with-english-professional-football-referee-michael-oliver\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/consultancy-heat-acclimation-training-with-english-professional-football-referee-michael-oliver\/\">Read more about the heat acclimation protocol he used to prepare for the tournament<\/a>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael attended our Laboratory at Newcastle University over a 4 week period scheduling in 7 heat sessions. The block was in preparation for refereeing games at the forthcoming FIFA Club World Cup football tournament in USA. Michael pictured training in the Environmental Chamber during a series of heat acclimation sessions for the upcoming Club World &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/2025\/07\/28\/consultancy-heat-acclimation-training-with-english-professional-football-referee-michael-oliver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Consultancy: Heat acclimation training with English professional football referee Michael Oliver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consultancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}