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Research Review: Exercise Can Be So Demanding, Michael Climstein, Joe Walsh
Research Review: Exercise Can Be So Demanding, Michael Climstein, Joe Walsh
Mike Climstein
Introduction: It’s the last week of university and I’m preparing my last lecture for a colleague who is in Las Vegas at a strength and conditioning conference. Hmmph! Just not fair – and on top of sending an email from the poolside reminding me to give the lecture, he has the audacity to complain about the 40°C weather (did I mention it’s been single digits temperature here on the Gold Coast in the mornings?) Anyway, getting back on topic, I’m preparing his lecture on obesity and am including a number of slides on basal metabolic rate, resting metabolic rate, assessment …
Improving Running Performance Using Non-Running Tasks, Darien Lewis
Improving Running Performance Using Non-Running Tasks, Darien Lewis
Honors College
For decades researchers and runners have endeavored to improve endurance running performance. Recent evidence suggests that adding resistance training to a running program can improve running performance. Our purpose was to determine if 6wks of resistance exercise via negative eccentrically-induced work (RENEW), an exercise that increases muscle size, strength, and stiffness, could serve as an effective “non-running” modality for improving running performance. Recreational runners were assigned to a: RENEW (n=7), plyometric (PLYO, n=7), or control (CON, n=7) group. RENEW trained on an eccentric ergometer (3x/wk, 10-30min, 54-66% of peak heart rate) while the PLYO performed …
Track & Field Team Holds Throwing Clinic For Bridgeport Students, Valerie Wherley
Track & Field Team Holds Throwing Clinic For Bridgeport Students, Valerie Wherley
Valerie Wherley
No abstract provided.
The Validity And Inter-Unit Reliability Of Custom-Made Surftrax Gps Units And Use During Surfing, Oliver Farley, M Andrews, Josh Secomb, Tai T. Tran, Lina Lundgren, Chris Abbiss, Jeremry Sheppard
The Validity And Inter-Unit Reliability Of Custom-Made Surftrax Gps Units And Use During Surfing, Oliver Farley, M Andrews, Josh Secomb, Tai T. Tran, Lina Lundgren, Chris Abbiss, Jeremry Sheppard
ECU Posters
The purposes of the study were to: i) gain further understanding of the movement patterns during surfing using custom made GPS units which are designed for surfing (SurfTraX, Gold Coast, Australia), and ii) determine the validity and inter-unit reliability of these units.
A Series Of Studies Examining The Development Of Sprint Speed And Momentum Of International Rugby Union Players, Matthew John Barr
A Series Of Studies Examining The Development Of Sprint Speed And Momentum Of International Rugby Union Players, Matthew John Barr
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Sprinting speed is a highly valued physical ability in rugby. There is little research examining sprinting biomechanics in rugby players and it is unclear the extent that sprinting speed and sprint momentum can even be improved in highly trained rugby players and how different speed and strength training methods might help improve it. This thesis consists of 6 studies that examine the sprinting biomechanics of elite rugby players, how strength and power training might improve sprinting speed and the potential for elite rugby players to make further improvement in their sprinting speed and sprint momentum.
Key biomechanical factors were that …