Sport and Health Sciences
Welcome to the research outputs of the University of Exeter Department of Sport and Health Sciences, including the Qualitative Research Unit, part of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences
Recent Submissions
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Branched-Chain Amino Acid Ingestion Stimulates Muscle Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis following Resistance Exercise in Humans
(Frontiers Media, 2017-06-07)The ingestion of intact protein or essential amino acids (EAA) stimulates mechanistic target of rapamycin complex-1 (mTORC1) signaling and muscle protein synthesis (MPS) following resistance exercise. The purpose of this ... -
Scaling the Oxygen Uptake Efficiency Slope for Body Size in Cystic Fibrosis
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins / American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), 2017-05-09)PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to describe the relationship between body size and the oxygen uptake efficiency slope (OUES) in paediatric patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and healthy controls (CON), in order to ... -
Life after sport? Examining life skill transfer following withdrawal from sport and compulsory physical education
(British Psychological Society, 2016-03)Researchers have found convincing data to suggest sport is a suitable environment for adolescents to develop intrapersonal and interpersonal life skills. However, there is little evidence suggesting that young females ... -
An Analysis of the Size and Direction of the Association between Mental Toughness and Olympic Distance Personal Best Triathlon Times
(Elsevier, 2017-05-12)Athletes, coaches, sport psychology practitioners, and researchers suggest that mental toughness represents an important construct that is associated with athletic performance. Unfortunately, the absence of real-world ... -
Influence of iodide ingestion on nitrate metabolism and blood pressure following short-term dietary nitrate supplementation in healthy normotensive adults
(Elsevier for Nitric Oxide Society, 2016-12-23)Uptake of inorganic nitrate (NO3(-)) into the salivary circulation is a rate-limiting step for dietary NO3(-) metabolism in mammals. It has been suggested that salivary NO3(-) uptake occurs in competition with inorganic ... -
A survey of exercise advice and recommendations in United Kingdom paediatric cardiac clinics - CORRIGENDUM
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017-03-20)The authors apologise for a missing label for one of the graphs in their published paper. It is missing from Figure 2 - the green label ‘concern about risks associated with exercise’ is missing. This version of the paper ... -
The quiet eye supports error recovery in golf putting
(Elsevier for European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC), 2017-03-23)Objectives The aim of this study was to further examine the relationship between the Quiet eye (QE, Vickers, 1996) and performance. We aimed to scrutinise the relationship between QE and shot outcome and replicate the ... -
Exercise Performance in Children and Young Adults After Complete and Incomplete Repair of Congenital Heart Disease
(Springer Verlag, 2015-05-17)Few previous studies have addressed exercise capacity in patients with corrected congenital heart disease (CHD) and significant anatomical residua. The aim of this study was to determine the aerobic fitness and peak cardiac ... -
The National Football League-225 Bench Press Test and the Size-Weight Illusion
(SAGE Publications, 2017-03-27)The purpose of this study was to test reports that size and arrangement manipulations of weight plates (i.e., inducing a size-weight illusion [SWI]) would have an effect on athletic weightlifting performance. The participants ... -
A small amount of precisely measured high intensity habitual physical activity predicts bone health in pre- and post-menopausal women in UK Biobank
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017)Background: Physical inactivity is a highly modifiable risk factor for the development of osteoporosis but due to a lack of research that has precisely and objectively meaured physical activity (PA) relevant to bone, the ... -
Trial baseline characteristics of a cluster randomised controlled trial of a school-located obesity prevention programme; the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) trial
(BioMed Central, 2017-04-04)Background We have developed a healthy lifestyles programme (HeLP) for primary school aged children (9–10 years), currently being evaluated in a definitive cluster randomised controlled trial. This paper descriptively ... -
Strategies to maintain skeletal muscle mass in the injured athlete: nutritional considerations and exercise mimetics
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge) for European College of Sport Science, 2014-07)The recovery from many injuries sustained in athletic training or competition often requires an extensive period of limb immobilisation (muscle disuse). Such periods induce skeletal muscle loss and consequent declines in ... -
Short-term muscle disuse atrophy is not associated with increased intramuscular lipid deposition or a decline in the maximal activity of key mitochondrial enzymes in young and older males
(Elsevier, 2015-01)Aging is generally accompanied by a progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and impairments in metabolic function. Even a few days of muscle disuse (such as that occurring during injury or illness) leads to considerable ... -
Dietary protein considerations to support active aging
(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014-11)Given our rapidly aging world-wide population, the loss of skeletal muscle mass with healthy aging (sarcopenia) represents an important societal and public health concern. Maintaining or adopting an active lifestyle ... -
Short-term muscle disuse lowers myofibrillar protein synthesis rates and induces anabolic resistance to protein ingestion
(American Physiological Society -, 2016-01-15)Disuse leads to rapid loss of skeletal muscle mass and function. It has been hypothesized that short successive periods of muscle disuse throughout the lifespan play an important role in the development of sarcopenia. The ... -
Presleep protein ingestion does not compromise the muscle protein synthetic response to protein ingested the following morning
(American Physiological Society, 2016-12-01)Protein ingestion before sleep augments postexercise muscle protein synthesis during overnight recovery. It is unknown whether postexercise and presleep protein consumption modulates postprandial protein handling and ... -
Increasing skeletal muscle carnitine availability does not alter the adaptations to high-intensity interval training
(Wiley, 2017-03-27)Increasing skeletal muscle carnitine availability alters muscle metabolism during steady-state exercise in healthy humans. We investigated whether elevating muscle carnitine, and thereby the acetyl-group buffering capacity, ... -
Elite youth sports - from best pediatric science practice to sports practice - 2016
(Human Kinetics, 2017-02)In my 2015 editorial, I selected two research publications with a focus on an applied sports sciences perspective. This year I have chosen to focus on two publications from a methodological viewpoint, highlighting the ... -
School-based sexual health education interventions to prevent STI/HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(BioMed Central, 2016-10-10)BACKGROUND: School-based sexual health education has the potential to provide an inclusive and comprehensive approach to promoting sexual health among young people. We reviewed evaluations of school-based sexual health ... -
Bimanual Lifting: Do Fingertip Forces Work Independently or Interactively?
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-03-02)Bimanual coordination is a commonplace activity, but the consequences of using both hands simultaneously are not well understood. The authors examined fingertip forces across 4 experiments in which participants undertook ...