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01-11-2015 | Letter to the Editor
Author’s Reply to Brocherie and Millet: ‘Is the Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature (WGBT) Index Relevant for Exercise in the Heat?’
Authors:
Julien D. Périard, Ollie Jay, Juan-Manuel Alonso, Aaron J. Coutts, Andreas D. Flouris, José González-Alonso, Christophe Hausswirth, Jason K. W. Lee, Lee Kong, George P. Nassis, Lars Nybo, Babette M. Pluim, Bart Roelands, Michael N. Sawka, Jonathan Wingo, Sébastien Racinais
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Sports Medicine
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Issue 11/2015
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Excerpt
We thank the correspondents [
1] for their interest in the recent consensus statement on training and competing in the heat [
2]. However, we were somewhat perplexed to note that the authors considered that the consensus statement “did not highlight one of the main current limitations: the recommendations for various sporting governing bodies (i.e., event organizers and international federations) are still based on the Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) index”. Indeed, one of the main recommendations in the consensus statement is that “the WBGT is an environmental heat stress index and not a representation of human heat strain. It is therefore difficult to establish absolute participation cut-off values across sports for different athletes and we rather recommend implementing preventive countermeasures or evaluating the specific demands of the sport when preparing extreme heat policies” [
2]. …
