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

Nicholas D. Gilson; Gregore I. Mielke; Jeff S. Coombes; Natan Feter; Emily Smith; Mitch J. Duncan; Guy Wallis; Wendy J. Brown

doi:10.1111/sms.13965

VO_2peak and 24-hour sleep, sedentary behavior, and physical activity in Australian truck drivers

Nicholas D. Gilson^*, Gregore I. Mielke, Jeff S. Coombes, Natan Feter, Emily Smith, Mitch J. Duncan, Guy Wallis, Wendy J. Brown

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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] VO_2peak=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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1574-1578
Number of pages	5
Journal	Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
Volume	31
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.13965
Publication status	Published - Jul 2021
Externally published	Yes

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