{"id":36,"date":"2021-04-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/?p=36"},"modified":"2022-10-11T17:03:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:03:36","slug":"new-study-meta-analysis-exploring-effects-of-heat-acclimation-on-vo2max-in-thermoneutral-and-hot-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/2021\/04\/03\/new-study-meta-analysis-exploring-effects-of-heat-acclimation-on-vo2max-in-thermoneutral-and-hot-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"New study: Meta-analysis exploring effects of heat acclimation on VO2max in thermoneutral and hot environments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In our latest study published in Sports Medicine on the 3rd April 2021 led by Dr Mark Waldron (Swansea University), we meta-analysed 28 studies to explore how heat acclimation or acclimatisation can modify maximal oxygen consumption. This is an area of some heated discussion in the literature (<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26667955\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26667955\/\">see for example the point-counterpoint in J.Physiol here<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-04-at-16.56.35-770x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-04-at-16.56.35-770x1024.png 770w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-04-at-16.56.35-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-04-at-16.56.35-768x1022.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-04-at-16.56.35.png 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To summarise our findings, we found that heat acclimation can enhance&nbsp;VO2max&nbsp;adaptation in thermoneutral or hot environments by at least a&nbsp;<em>small<\/em>&nbsp;and up to a&nbsp;<em>moderate\u2013large<\/em>&nbsp;amounts, with larger improvements occurring in the heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article can be found here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s40279-021-01445-6\" target=\"_blank\">10.1007\/s40279-021-01445-6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest study published in Sports Medicine on the 3rd April 2021 led by Dr Mark Waldron (Swansea University), we meta-analysed 28 studies to explore how heat acclimation or acclimatisation can modify maximal oxygen consumption. This is an area of some heated discussion in the literature (see for example the point-counterpoint in J.Physiol here). &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/2021\/04\/03\/new-study-meta-analysis-exploring-effects-of-heat-acclimation-on-vo2max-in-thermoneutral-and-hot-environments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New study: Meta-analysis exploring effects of heat acclimation on VO2max in thermoneutral and hot environments&#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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}