VO₂ₚₑₐₖ and 24-hour sleep, sedentary behavior, and physical activity in Australian truck drivers

Title: VO₂ₚₑₐₖ and 24-hour sleep, sedentary behavior, and physical activity in Australian truck drivers
Creator: Gilson, Nicholas D.; Mielke, Gregore I.; Coombes, Jeff S.; Feter, Natan; Smith, Emily; Duncan, Mitch J.; Wallis, Guy; Brown, WJ
Relation: Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports Vol. 31, Issue 7, p. 1574-1578
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sms.13965
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2021
Description: This study assessed cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and 24-h sleep, sedentary behavior (SB), and physical activity (PA) in Australian truck drivers. Participants (n = 37 men) attended clinic sessions for an exercise test to exhaustion to establish CRF and wore an accelerometer (Actigraph GT3X+) to estimate sleep, SB, and PA. Relative to normative values, CRF was “below percentile 25” in 51% of drivers (mean [SD] VO2peak=30.1 [7.6] mL.kg-1.min-1). Accelerometer data indicated that total vigorous-intensity (3.5–4.5 min/day) and sustained moderate- to vigorous-intensity PA (>5 min; 0.5–1.6 bouts/day) were limited. The findings show there is a need to design and test PA interventions that can improve poor levels of CRF in truck drivers.
Subject: cardiorespiratory fitness; physical activity; sedentary behavior; sleep; truck drivers
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1473391
Identifier: uon:49005
Identifier: ISSN:0905-7188
Language: eng
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