Belén Carballo-Leyenda

Universidad de León | UNILEON · Physical Education and Sport Sciences

Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the competitive demands of mountain running races of varying lengths. Methods: Sixty-six male athletes competed in Vertical (VR, ~3 km and ~1,000 m of total elevation change), Sky (SR, ~25 km and ~3,000 m of total elevation change) and SkyUltra (SUR, ~80 km and ~9,000 m of total elevation change) races. Exercise...

Background Wildland firefighters (WFFs) regularly face demanding physical and environmental conditions during their duties, such as high ambient temperatures, challenging terrains, heavy equipment and protective gear. These conditions can strain thermoregulatory responses, leading to increased fatigue and posing risks to their health and safety. Th...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic prompted tens of thousands of people worldwide to migrate from cities in its early stages, leading to an increased spread of the virus. Understanding the factors driving relocation during a pandemic is crucial for effective outbreak control. We investigated how the pandemic influenced people’s aspira...

In the life-threatening work of action forces, a decision support system (DSS) must provide a software application that should improve a mission decision maker's capability to make decisions. This requires analysing large amounts of data and to present and visualize the best possible options available. In case of first responders, where errors in d...

At physiologically intensive work or during acute exercises, early alert functions are highly required to prevent physiological damage to human health. Wearable sensor-based monitoring of vital parameters can provide real-time measures for the quantification of a worker’s individual psychophysiological and thermal strain to define risk levels for a...

La presencia del alumnado trans en el sistema educativo obligatorio evidencia la necesidad de generar estudios e investigaciones que contribuyan a facilitar la labor de los profesionales y la inclusión de los estudiantes trans. No se ha localizado ninguna investigación que analice las publicaciones sobre Educación Física y el colectivo trans desde...

Resumen. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue analizar el tipo de pruebas físicas de selección utilizadas en diferentes convocatorias nacionales de acceso al servicio de Salvamento y Extinción de Incendios y describir las diferencias aplicadas en las marcas mínimas exigidas en función del sexo de los aspirantes. Para ello, se estudiaron 49 convocat...

Wildland firefighting implies high physical and psychological demands for the personnel involved. Therefore, good physical fitness can help increase the work efficiency of wildland firefighters (WFFs) and safeguard their health. High-intensity circuit training (HICT) could be a good alternative to improve the physical condition of WFFs since it sta...

Wildland firefighters (WFF) face a set of specific work-related factors that directly affect their physical and cognitive abilities and compromise their health and safety. The working conditions include hard physical work and environmental conditions that combine high temperatures and high radiant heat. Such environments make using personal protect...

This study aimed to assess current perceptions of heat stress, heat strain, acclimatisation and re-covery practices in wildland fire suppression. 1,459 wildfire and structural firefighters, both in-volved in wildland fire suppression, completed an 18-question survey. Most participants (81.3%) reported heat strain as one of the main risks to face up...

The work performed by wildland firefighters (WFFs) is very demanding owing to the conditions in which they have to operate. It has been reported that these professionals walk long distances over unstable and steep terrain carrying heavy loads, handle tools manually and repeatedly and are subject to a high level of thermal stress. Under such conditi...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of postexercise rating times (from 0 minutes to 4 weeks) on session rating of perceived exertion (sRPE). Twenty-five athletes (12 women and 13 men) from different sports (sprinting, endurance running, cycling, and volleyball) were involved in this study. At least 3 training sessions per subject we...

The arduous conditions (i.e., harsh environmental conditions, high physical and mental demands) in which wildland firefighters (WFFs) have to perform their work during wildfire suppression can lead to states of both physical and mental fatigue. Although several studies have delved into the first type of fatigue, there is a paucity of research on th...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of post-exercise rating times (from 0-min to 4-wks) on sRPE. Twenty five athletes (12 females and 13 males) from different sports (sprinting, endurance running, cycling and volleyball) were involved in this study. At least 3 training sessions per subject were quantified based on sRPE using a visua...

The Pack Test (PT) is a widely used test to establish readiness for work in wildland firefighting. It is common to perform this test dressed in regular exercise clothing. However, wildland fire-fighters (WFF) have to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) during their deployments, which increases the physiological strain and reducing their work c...

The main purpose of this study was to characterise the thermal environment and the risk of heat burns of wildland firefighters according to the suppression tasks performed in real wildland fires. Measurements of air temperature and heat flux were performed by affixing heat flux and ambient temperature sensors on the outer and inner surface of the w...

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Purpose: This study investigated the effect of cooldown modality (active vs passive) and duration (5, 10, and 15 min) on session rating of perceived exertion (sRPE). Secondarily, the possible influence of training sessions' demand on this effect was studied. Methods: A total of 16 youth male soccer players (15.7 [0.4] y) completed 2 standardized...

La extinción de incendios forestales implica la exposición al flujo de calor procedente de las llamas y a altas temperaturas ambientales. Estos factores incrementan el riego de sufrir quemaduras, por lo que el Equipo de Protección Individual (EPI) resulta de uso obligatorio para proteger al personal especialista en extinción de incendios forestales...

Influencia del equipo de protección individual en el estrés fisiológico por calor en el personal especialista en extinción de incendios forestales (PEEIF) RESUMEN / ABSTRACT La extinción de incendios forestales es una ocupación físicamente exigente que se caracteriza por unas condiciones específicas que conllevan la exposición a altas temperaturas...

INTRODUCCIÓN: Durante la extinción de incendios forestales (IIFF) la naturaleza impredecible de los mismos crea un ambiente peligroso y físicamente desafiante al Personal Especialista en Extinción de Incendios Forestales (PEEIF). Es por ello que es de especial interés el conocimiento de valores relativos a la capacidad aeróbica (VO2max), parámetro...

Wildland firefighters work under adverse environments (e.g., heat and fire exposure), which contribute to increasing the heat strain. Despite this there is a paucity of knowledge about the thermal environment in real wildfire suppression scenarios. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to characterize the environmental thermal exposure and...

Activities performed by wildland firefighters are carried out wearing a personal protective equipment (PPE). Although the PPE protects workers from a wide variety of hazards, it may increase their physiological response and limit their performance. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of the protective clothing (PPC) and the rest of the...

Wildfire firefighting is an extremely demanding occupation performed under hot environment. The use of personal protective clothing (PPC) is needed to protect subjects from the thermal exposure. However, the additional use of PPC may increase the wildland firefighters' physiological strain, and consequently limit their performance. The aim of this...

The aim of this study was to analyse the physiological strain of firefighters, using heart rate (HR) and core temperature, during real wildfire suppression according to the type of attack performed (direct, indirect or mixed). Three intensity zones were established according to the HR corresponding to the ventilatory threshold (VT) and respiratory...

The aim of this study was to analyze the physiological demands and thermal strain of wildland firefighters during real wildfire suppression. The response of core temperature and heart rate (HR) were analyzed in 200 wildland firefighters during wildfire suppression activities of different duration: <1 h (n = 52), 1-3 h (n = 70), 3-5 h (n = 44), and...

The aim of this study was to analyse the physiological strain of firefighters, using heart rate (HR) and core temperature, during real wildfire suppression according to the type of attack performed (direct, indirect or mixed). Three intensity zones were established according to the HR corresponding to the ventilatory threshold (VT) and respiratory...

Background: Health and occupational performance in wildland firefighters are mainly impaired for the carbon monoxide inhalation. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze the personal exposure to carbon monoxide in wildland firefighters during wildfires suppression. Methods: Carbon monoxide exposure was monitorized in 44 subjects during 58 re...

Health and occupational performance in wildland firefighters are mainly impaired for the carbon monoxide inhalation. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze the personal exposure to carbon monoxide in wildland firefighters during wildfires suppression. Carbon monoxide exposure was monitorized in 44 subjects during 58 real wildfires. Moreove...

El Personal Especialista en Extinción de Incendios Forestales (PEEIF) desarrolla su trabajo en condiciones que exigen un gran esfuerzo físico. La actividad realizada está condicionada por diversos factores, entre ellos las altas temperaturas, la dureza orográfica, la inhalación de humos y la deshidratación. En el presente estudio se ha cuantificado...

The wildland firefighters (PEEIF) develop their work in conditions that require great physical effort (eg., high temperature, hardness orographic, smoke exposure, dehydration). The aim of this study was to quantify the exercise effort exerted by the PEEIF (n = 200) in different wildfires extinction (n = 79). According to the maximum oxygen consumpt...