Biovariation in physiological responses during submaximal and maximal treadmill exercise in black and white subjects. Master's Thesis project by Christos Balabinos. Thesis complete; December 11, 1997. Read the abstract accepted for the 1998 Orlando ACSM meeting.

Energy cost of SurfBike exercise. Joint research project with the School of Medicine, University of Laval, Quebec, and the Univeristy of Michigan. Preliminary results show heart rate rises to about 86% of age-predicted maximum heart rate in men and women across a wide age range. The next project evaluates the energy cost during three different intensities of SurfBike exercise. Watch for an update.

Height and weight of NBA basketball players. Data on about 7,500 NBA players from 1980 to present

Body size and shape of NFL football players: 1920-1996. Project with Kevin Monahan, currently a Master's student in exercise physiology at the University of Colorado. Analysis by position and team for 51,333 players! For ACSM, we present data on 27,774 of the players. Read the abstract accepted for the 1998 Orlando ACSM meeting.

Effects of electrical stimulation on regional arm body composition. Paper accepted for publication in Annals of Human Biology, 1997. Betsy Keller, senior author

Allometric scaling of world indoor rowing performance. With Paul Vanderburgh. Paper in review, European Journal Applied Physiology. Read the abstract.

Specificity-generality of anaerobic power tasks in trained and untrained females. Jesse Sutela. MS Thesis complete. Paper in progress.

NEW TEXTBOOK. Exercise and Sports Nutrition. Authors: McArdle, W.D., Katch F.I., and Katch, V.L. Williams & Wilkins. Baltimore. Publication date Fall, 1998. See a sample table about the caffeine content of common foods. Table of Contents and featured History Makers

Regression equations to predict body composition from girths in male gymnasts. Data collection complete.

Anthropometric measurements of ancient Greek statues.

Creation of Home Pages on the Internet for one of my graduate classes. Visit our experimental site on the web -- Check it out. We used Front Page (Microsoft for the PC--yuk) -- I'll be kind and say it was an educational "experience" for a Mac person. Instead of a formal term project, students created web pages for their projects. In addition, 5 students completed independent study projects using the Internet. I've discovered that having students compose final projects on the Internet (as a homepage) is far more useful than the traditional method. Beginning Fall, 1997, all term projects for future courses taught will appear on the Internet. Perhaps this may seem controversial to some, but for me, it's natural and the students find the experience challenging and educationally exhilerating.

On-Going Projects

Read History Makers articles. Go to this Internet site to read about pioneers in Exercise Nutrition. Published monthly. The best site on the net for Sportscience.

Edward Smith

Edward Smith (1819-1874), used closed-circuit spirometry to show that protein was not the main fuel for exercise. Nov-Dec 97

James Lind

James Lind (1716-1794), carried out a decisive experiment that changed the course of naval medicine. By adding fresh fruit to sailors' diets, Lind fortified their immune systems and defeated scurvy. Sept-Oct 97

Archibald Vivian Hill

Physiologist A.V. Hill (1886-1977), wins Nobel Prize for crucial discoveries about chemical and mechanical events in muscle contraction. May-June 97

Claude Bernard

Claude Bernard (1813-1878), one of the greatest experimental physiologists of all time, made crucial discoveries that impacted medicine, nutrition, and exercise science. March-April 97

Antoinne Lavoisier (current article)

Antoinne Lavoisier (1743-1794) ushered in modern concepts in metabolism, nutrition, and exercise physiology. Lavoisier studied the influence of muscular work on metabolism, quantifying the increases in oxygen uptake, pulse rate, and respiratory rate. Lavoisier paved the way for future studies of energy balance by recognizing for the first time that the elements involved in metabolism (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen) appeared neither suddenly nor disappeared mysteriously. Lavoisier supplied basic truths: only oxygen participates in animal respiration, and the "caloric" liberated during respiration is itself the source of the combustion.