The Relationship between Physical Fitness and Simulated Firefighting Task Performance

Table 1

Firefighters’ demographic characteristics.

Demographics	Males	Females	All
Sample size	46.00	3.00	49.00
Age (years)	33.48 ± 9.42	36.00 ± 5.00	33.66 ± 9.19
Height (m)	1.82 ± 0.072	1.69 ± 0.05	1.81 ± 0.08
Weight (kg)	91.61 ± 12.60	71.00 ± 5.20	90.35 ± 13.22
Body mass index (kg/m^2)	27.71 ± 3.54	24.86 ± 3.11	27.53 ± 3.56
Resting heart rate (bpm)	73.76 ± 10.78	76.67 ± 10.07	73.94 ± 10.66
85% heart rate-max (bpm)	158.52 ± 8.04	156.33 ± 4.50	158.40 ± 7.85
(ml/kg/min)	40.54 ± 6.38	36.70 ± 1.17	40.30 ± 6.25
NIOSH lower limb strength (kg)	140.48 ± 26.70	107.00 ± 26.51	138.43 ± 27.63
Grip strength, right (kg)	60.49 ± 9.41	42.40 ± 9.07	59.38 ± 10.28
Grip strength, left (kg)	57.65 ± 9.17	38.43 ± 8.22	56.47 ± 10.17
Combined grip strength (kg)	118.14 ± 17.60	80.833 ± 16.07	115.85 ± 19.56