Exercise Sciences
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BYU professor changing the game for BYU and Team USA elite steeplechasers
Plenty of media stories have detailed the dedication and effort displayed by Kenneth Rooks and fellow BYU Olympians Courtney Wayment and James Corrigan. But most people don’t know that a key to Team USA’s steeplechase success is the personalized research of BYU exercise science professor Iain Hunter.
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BYU professors using game-changing strategies to prevent injuries, promote wellbeing in youth athletes
BYU professor Matt Seeley created the Strong Youth Project after watching all five of his children participate in youth sports. While he loves the many invaluable benefits of youth sports, he laments that his children often miss family activities for practice or face pressures to compete in sports during the offseason. These concerns have fueled his collaboration with professors from disciplines across BYU’s campus to improve organized sport experiences for youth, parents and coaches.
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BYU team using wearable nanocomposite sensor and AI to create prescription-like system for chronic back pain
To find effective therapies for chronic low back pain, and to help curb opioid addiction, the NIH created the Back Pain Consortium Research Program. BYU is one of 10 major universities (along with Harvard, Ohio State and the University of Utah) tapped to help with this effort, and new work from researchers here has led to a system to prescribe patient-specific back pain remedies like doctors would prescribe medication.
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Women are routinely excluded from exercise research across the country. A new BYU study shows why that’s misguided
A new BYU study debunks the assumption that menstrual cycles disqualify women from exercise research. Analyzing women’s exercise performance across their menstrual cycles, researchers found no variability in endurance thresholds or performance: from workout to workout, women’s performance was just as consistent as men’s.
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BYU exercise science researchers pinpoint new method to optimize personal aerobic workouts
New BYU research unveils a more effective way to determine the intensity at which each person should work out to achieve the greatest results. A study appearing in the Journal of Applied Physiology outlines a new system to create not just personalized workouts, but “prescribed” workouts that provide results regardless of an individual’s current health.
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BYU study: Wearing a pedometer — even if you don’t look at it — may boost step counts
Almost half of American adults don’t meet recommended weekly physical activity levels, but new BYU research suggests a surprisingly simple way to help increase exercise time: just strap on an activity monitor.
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As the U.S. obesity epidemic grows, new BYU study shows who is most likely to be part of it
BYU researchers found that more than half of American adults in a new study gained 5% or more body weight over a 10-year period. What’s more, more than a third of American adults gained 10% or more body weight and almost a fifth gained 20% or more body weight.
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BYU study: Want to maximize the health outcomes of fasting? Start your fast with exercise
Exercise at the start of a fast can make a big difference. A BYU study finds when participants exercised, they reached ketosis on average three and a half hours earlier in the fast and produced 43% more the ketone-like chemical BHB.
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Can heat therapy mimic some vascular benefits of exercise? BYU researchers say yes
Their research shows that passive heat therapy practically eliminates a near 30% decline in artery health that happens when people, perhaps because due to injury, become less physically active.
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New personal branding course educating BYU student-athletes on business in the time of NIL
Class teaches principles of success for life beyond college athletics
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BYU joins three medical schools on $4 million NFL study for hamstring injuries
Brigham Young University is one of four universities partnering on a new $4 million NFL grant to study the prevention and treatment of hamstring injuries among football players.
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Want to increase your scientific impact? Consider popular media, new research finds
New BYU research published in PLOS One found that the more scientific publications were referenced in popular media — mainstream news and social media — the more they were also cited in peer-reviewed literature.
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10,000 steps: Not quite magical when it comes to weight
For years now, 10,000 steps a day has become the gold standard for people trying to improve their health — and recent research shows some benefits can come from even just 7,500 steps. But if you’re trying to prevent weight gain, a new Brigham Young University study suggests no number of steps alone will do the trick.
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Drinking 1% milk instead of 2% milk is associated with 4.5 years of less aging in adults
Drinking low-fat milk is associated with longer telomeres in adults. Adults who drink whole and 2% milk experience significant additional aging on the cellular level.
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E-bikes provide intense exercise, but it doesn’t feel like a workout
Participants in a new study hit elevated heart rates riding the same test loop on both e-mountain bikes and regular mountain bikes, suggesting that e-bikes can in fact be a good source of high-intensity exercise.
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Can your shoes really make you run faster?
Led by Professor Iain Hunter, researchers at BYU studied top marathon running shoes to discover if one could help runners be more efficient
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BYU researchers create a FitBit-like device for figure skaters
Project is funded by the U.S. Figure Skating Association
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The way you move post-surgery is connected to long-term success of ACL reconstruction
A third of people who undergo ACL reconstruction surgery will have osteoarthritis in their injured knee within 10 years. Within two decades, nearly 50 percent will — terrible odds for getting a debilitating condition with no known cure.
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