Effect of ambient temperature on female endurance performance.

J Therm Biol

SINTEF Technology and Society, Department of Health Research, P.O. Box 4760 Sluppen, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway. Electronic address:

Published: October 2014

AI Article Synopsis

  • Ambient temperature impacts physical performance, with an optimal range of -4 °C to 11 °C identified for male athletes, but effects on female athletes are less understood.
  • The study involved nine female athletes performing six treadmill tests at varying temperatures, including -14 °C to 20 °C, while measuring their endurance capabilities across different conditions.
  • Results indicated that, unlike male athletes, female endurance performance during incremental exercise was not significantly affected by ambient temperature, showing no changes in critical performance metrics.

Article Abstract

Ambient temperature can affect physical performance, and an ambient temperature range of -4 °C to 11 °C is optimal for endurance performance in male athletes. The few similar studies of female athletes appear to have found differences in response to cold between the genders. This study investigated whether ambient temperature affects female endurance performance. Nine athletes performed six tests while running on a treadmill in a climatic chamber at different ambient temperatures: 20, 10, 1, -4, -9 and -14 °C and a wind speed of 5 m s(-1). The exercise protocol consisted of a 10-min warm-up, followed by four 5-min intervals at increasing intensities at 76%, 81%, 85%, and 89% of maximal oxygen consumption. This was followed by an incremental test to exhaustion. Although peak heart rate, body mass loss, and blood lactate concentration after the incremental test to exhaustion increased as the ambient temperature rose, no changes in time to exhaustion, running economy, running speed at lactate threshold or maximal oxygen consumption were found between the different ambient temperature conditions. Endurance performance during one hour of incremental exercise was not affected by ambient temperature in female endurance athletes.

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