Exercise Physiology Educational Resources 1997

Index of Brief Reviews

Maintained by Geoffrey R. Strauss, Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology

Introduction

Brief (3000 to 5000 word) literature reviews are a required assignment for the Exercise Physiology 552 unit. This unit is taken by students in the Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Physiotherapy and Postgraduate Diploma in Physiotherapy (Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation) courses. The 1997 assignments have been converted to www format using Netscape Composer

Contents

The topics reviewed are listed and linked in the index below.

Topics of Review

(These pages will be available in the near future)

• Does Muscle Structure Determine Function? - Chiara von Perger
• How Passive Structures Influence the Active Properties of Muscle - Craig Ranson
• Why are There Different Fibre Types? - Cathy Stewart
• Fibre Type Distribution in Human Muscles - Rob Colling
• What are the "Neural Mechanisms" of Strength Adaptations? - Ruth Pelleg
• Structural Determinants of Muscle Strength (Form and Function) - Lynn Martin
• Should Muscle Power be the Measure of Strength? - Danielle Woodhouse
• Can Muscle Balance Really be Assessed? - Nina Tillberg
• What are the Necessary Conditions for Muscle Hypertrophy? - Lisa Mason
• Training Strength, Power and Endurance using Isoinertial (Free Weights) Training - Andrew Slade
• What is Muscle Endurance? - Tracey Wheeler
• Is Fatigue a Necessary Prerequisite for Adaptation to a Strength Training Program? - Tom Chickonoski
• Prevention of DOMS and the Amelioration of DOMS - Chiara von Perger
• Muscle Stiffness- is it Neurological or Mechanical? - Ruth Pelleg
• Predictors of Cardiorespiratory Capabilities - Lynn Martin
• Differences in Cardiorespiratory Responses to Upper and Lower Extremity Exercise - Tom Chickonoski
• Blood Pressure Responses to Intermittent and Sustained Muscle Actions - Cathy Stewart
• Limitations to VO2 max - Craig Ranson
• Lactate Production and Removal During Exercise and Recovery - Lisa Mason
• Assessment and Detection of the Anaerobic Threshold - Rob Colling
• The Influence of Exercising at the Lactate Threshold on the Aerobic Training Response - Tracey Wheeler
• How to Taper for Competition - Danielle Woodhouse
• Exercising in the Heat - Andrew Slade
• Exercising at Altitude - Nina Tillberg

Exercise Physiology Educational Resources