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Physiological responses during a standardised treadmill test for structural firefighting employment were compared in 41 pairs of size-matched, male and female applicants. Applicants wore personal exercise clothing, running shoes, and fire protective ensemble with self-contained breathing apparatus (added mass 21.2 ± 1.0 kg). Applicants walked at 1.56 m·s −1 , completing a 5-min warm-up, 8-min at 10% grade, and then, progressive 1-min stages to exhaustion. The cut-score required completion of 13-min of exercise. Up to the cut-score, no differences in heart rate, oxygen uptake or minute ventilation were detected between sexes. At time 12:30–13:00 min,  V̇ O 2  was 45.7 ± 0.6  vs.  44.2 ± 0.5 mL·kg −1 ·min −1  (body mass) for males and females, respectively. Despite similar physiological responses at minute 13, females worked at higher fractions of peak than males ( p  &lt; 0.05). A second analysis compared a subset of 27 fitness-matched ( V̇ O 2peak ) male-female pairs. Fitness-matching further reduced or eliminated most observed differences in physiological responses, except small differences in breathing pattern. Practitioner Summary:  Physiological responses during a standardised treadmill test for firefighter applicants were investigated in male and female applicants matched on size and fitness. Absolute responses to exercise were the same for both sexes when size-matched, but relative intensity was higher for females. Fitness-matching reduced or eliminated most previously observed differences. Abbreviations : NFPA: National Fire Protection Association;  V̇ O 2 : rate of oxygen consumption;  V̇ O 2peak : rate of oxygen consumption at peak exercise; PAR-Q+: Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire Plus; SCBA: self-contained breathing apparatus; ANOVA: analysis of variance;  V ̇ E : minute ventilation;  V̇Epeak : minute ventilation at peak exercise;  V̇E / V̇ O 2 : ventilatory equivalent for oxygen.

Physiological responses to treadmill exercise in size- and fitness-matched male and female firefighter applicants