Heat alleviation strategies for athletic performance: a review and practitioner guidelines

OR Gibson, CA James, JA Mee, AGB Willmott… - Temperature, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
International competition inevitably presents logistical challenges for athletes. Events such
as the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games require further consideration given historical climate data …

Sex differences in the physiological adaptations to heat acclimation: a state-of-the-art review

KA Wickham, PJ Wallace, SS Cheung - European journal of applied …, 2021 - Springer
Over the last few decades, females have significantly increased their participation in athletic
competitions and occupations (eg military, firefighters) in hot and thermally challenging …

Cross-adaptation: heat and cold adaptation to improve physiological and cellular responses to hypoxia

OR Gibson, L Taylor, PW Watt, NS Maxwell - Sports medicine, 2017 - Springer
To prepare for extremes of heat, cold or low partial pressures of oxygen (O 2), humans can
undertake a period of acclimation or acclimatization to induce environment-specific …

Could heat therapy be an effective treatment for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases? A narrative review

AP Hunt, GM Minett, OR Gibson, GK Kerr… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases involve the progressive deterioration of structures within the
central nervous system responsible for motor control, cognition, and autonomic function …

Sauna exposure immediately prior to short-term heat acclimation accelerates phenotypic adaptation in females

JA Mee, S Peters, JH Doust, NS Maxwell - … of science and medicine in sport, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives Investigate whether a sauna exposure prior to short-term heat acclimation (HA)
accelerates phenotypic adaptation in females. Design Randomised, repeated measures …

Acute exercise in a hot environment increases heat shock protein 70 and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator 1α mRNA in Thoroughbred horse …

Y Ebisuda, K Mukai, Y Takahashi, T Yoshida… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Heat acclimatization or acclimation training in horses is practiced to reduce physiological
strain and improve exercise performance in the heat, which can involve metabolic …

Physiological and perceptual responses to exercising in restrictive heat loss attire with use of an upper-body sauna suit in temperate and hot conditions

AGB Willmott, OR Gibson, CA James, M Hayes… - Temperature, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this experiment was to quantify physiological and perceptual responses to
exercise with and without restrictive heat loss attire in hot and temperate conditions. Ten …

Skeletal muscle angiogenic, regulatory, and heat shock protein responses to prolonged passive hyperthermia of the human lower limb

OR Gibson, R Astin, Z Puthucheary… - American Journal …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Passive hyperthermia induces a range of physiological responses including augmenting
skeletal muscle mRNA expression. This experiment aimed to examine gene and protein …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-adaptation from heat stress to hypoxia: A systematic review and exploratory meta-analysis

AGB Willmott, AG Diment, HC Chung, CA James… - Journal of Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cross-adaptation (CA) refers to the successful induction of physiological adaptation under
one environmental stressor (eg, heat), to enable subsequent benefit in another (eg …

Implications of Heat Stress-induced Metabolic Alterations for Endurance Training

S Bennett, E Tiollier, DJ Owens… - … Journal of Sports …, 2024 - thieme-connect.com
Inducing a heat-acclimated phenotype via repeated heat stress improves exercise capacity
and reduces athletes̓ risk of hyperthermia and heat illness. Given the increased number of …