Best Irene Barnes Podcasts (2024)

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#84 - Effect of shoes and gait on running injuries with Professor Irene Davis 2:04:04

9d ago2:04:04

2:04:04

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Irene Davis from the University of South Florida who is a top running injuries researcher and the current president of the American College of Sports Medicine. She makes the argument that we were born to run and have evolved to land on the ball of the foot during running and this reduces impact load compared w…

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#83 - Applying Sport Science: Lessons from the Olympics and the NBA with Dr David Martin 2:05:21

27d ago2:05:21

2:05:21

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Dr David Martin. David has a remarkable and varied background starting off as a research scientist at the Australian Institute Sport and then National Sports Science Coordinator at Cycling Australia. He then became Director, Performance Research and Development at the Philadelphia 76ers. He is currently Chief Scientist,…

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#82 - Heart transplant Ironmen!: Upper limits of performance post heart transplant. Prof Mark Haykowsky, Dwight Kroening and Elmar Sprink 2:10:41

1M ago2:10:41

2:10:41

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Mark Haykowsky from the University of Alberta, Canada and remarkable heart transplant recipients Dwight Kroening, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Elmar Sprink, Cologne, Germany. Dwight was very fit before a heart defect resulted in his heart transplantation (HT) way back in 1986. Elmar was an endurance athlete w…

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#81 - Muscle recovery after joint injury with Dr Chris Fry 1:19:10

2M ago1:19:10

1:19:10

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Associate Professor Chris Fry from the University of Kentucky, USA. Joint injury causes muscle weakness and atrophy (reductions in muscle size) due to the the inactivity but also separately due to the injury itself. Substances are released from muscle to help repair the joint/bone. Prehab is important before surgery. Th…

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#80 - Epigenetics of exercise adaptation and "muscle memory" with Dr Kevin Murach 1:41:53

2M ago1:41:53

1:41:53

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Assistant Professor Kevin Murach who is a rising star from the University of Arkansas, USA. Kevin is an expert on muscle, muscle growth, adaptation to exercise training, “muscle memory”, the regulation of muscle growth and muscle memory and the effect of aging etc. Muscle memory definitely seems real (especially in slow…

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#78 - Food, exercise and glucose "spikes": should everyone wear a CGM? Glucose spikes are normal physiology!! With Dr Guess and Prof Little 1:27:48

3M ago1:27:48

1:27:48

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Dr Nicola Guess from Oxford University, England and Professor Jonathan Little from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Nicola is a dietitian researcher with many years of expertise including the importance or otherwise of glucose “spikes” or excursions and the pros and cons of continuous glucose monitor use. Jon…

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#79 - Exercise and the brain with Dr Jill Barnes 1:40:06

3M ago1:40:06

1:40:06

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Associate Professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Jill is an expert on the brain and exercise. We discussed the effect of acute (one bout) and chronic physical activity/ exercise on cognitive function, brain blood flow (BBF), dementia/Alzheimer’s disease risk and progression etc. A very interesting chat…

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#77 - Exercise and pregnancy with Professor Margie Davenport 1:45:57

4M ago1:45:57

1:45:57

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Margie Davenport from the University of Alberta, Canada. She is an expert on exercise and pregnancy. We discussed the effect of pregnancy on the health (including pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes) and exercise performance of the mother and on the health of the fetus during pregnancy and the offspring aft…

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#76 - Creatine in exercise and health with Professor Darren Candow 1:54:55

5M ago1:54:55

1:54:55

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Darren Candow from the University of Regina. Saskatchewan, Canada. He is an expert on creatine (Cr) and the effects of creatine supplementation on resistance exercise and other exercise. He is also examining the role of creatine in bone metabolism and cognitive function. Get greater increases in strength than …

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#75 - Physiology of exercise in extreme environments: sex as a biological variable with Dr Nisha Charkoudian 1:00:53

5M ago1:00:53

1:00:53

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Associate Professor Nisha Charkoudian from the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts, USA. She is an expert on the effects of extreme environments on exercise capacity. We talked about dehydration, electrolytes, effects of humid vs dry environments etc. We also discussed the importa…

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#74- Are beta2-agonists just asthma treatments or also performance enhancers? With Dr Morten Hostrup 1:59:37

5M ago1:59:37

1:59:37

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Associate Professor from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an expert on the effect of beta2-agonist asthma bronchodilator medications (like Ventolin) on muscle and exercise performance. We talked about what is asthma/exercise induced bronchoconstriction, can you train your lungs?, the increased prevalence of …

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#73 - Protein and muscle adaptations to loading and unloading with Professor Luc van Loon 1:52:05

5M ago1:52:05

1:52:05

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Luc van Loon from Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He is an expert with a wealth of knowledge on the role of physical activity/exercise and nutrition on muscle adaptation. A lot of his research focuses on protein and protein synthesis. He applies these studies to young healthy individuals, the aged and …

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#72 - Tendons: from exercise adaptation to injury and rehabilitation, with Professor Michael Kjær 1:33:37

6M ago1:33:37

1:33:37

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Michael Kjær from the Department of Clinical Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an expert on tendons and exercise. We chatted about muscle vs musculotendinous junction vs tendon, what structures get injured and why, tendon injuries: mechanisms, prevention, treatment, ac…

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#71 - Aging, inactivity, atrophy and exercise with Professor Sue Bodine 1:22:09

6M ago1:22:09

1:22:09

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Sue Bodine from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma, USA. She is an expert on muscle, in particular muscle atrophy with inactivity/aging. We chatted about how with age muscle size is reduced and this is associated with a reduction in muscle fiber size and also a loss of fast muscle fibers. Resis…

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#70 - Sleep, recovery and fatigue in athletes with Professor Shona Halson 1:24:58

6M ago1:24:58

1:24:58

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Shona Halson from the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia. We chatted about how much sleep athletes need compared with how much sleep they actually get. Night sleep vs naps vs total sleep in athletes vs non athletes. The importance of consistency of sleep. Caffeine, sleep and exercise performa…

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#69 - Should middle-aged men pull on lycra? With Dr Andre La Gerche 1:52:47

6M ago1:52:47

1:52:47

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Assoc Prof Andre La Gerche a world leading Sports Cardiologist from St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia. Acute exercise for long periods at a high intensity can result in abnormal right ventricle function. In addition, years of long, hard exercise training is associated with increased corona…

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#68 - Muscle fiber types revisited with Professor Wim Derave 2:01:00

6M ago2:01:00

2:01:00

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Wim Derave from the Ghent University in Belgium. We talked about the different muscle fibres/fiber types in humans and his recent evidence that pure Type 2X muscle fibers may not really exist or maybe only in some sedentary individuals. He also made the point that muscle fiber type info is not used enough in s…

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#67 - Limitations to VO2 max with Professor Jose Calbet 1:54:41

7M ago1:54:41

1:54:41

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor José Calbet from the University of Las Palmas de Gran, Canary Islands, Spain. José has a very strong research record and is a global leader in his field. He has done amazing invasive exercise studies in humans to determine the limiting factor(s) to VO2 max. We talked about what is VO2 max, the factors determin…

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#66 - Exercise and the cardiovascular system with Professor Ylva Hellsten 1:38:30

7M ago1:38:30

1:38:30

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Ylva Hellsten from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She is an authority on the effect of exercise on blood flow and cardiovascular function. We talked about heart rate before exercise and blood flow and blood pressure during and after exercise. She pointed out that muscle blood flow can increase by 100…

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#65 - Interactions between exercise and insulin with Professor Erik Richter 1:24:01

7M ago1:24:01

1:24:01

Dr Glenn McConell chats with his great collaborator Professor Erik Richter from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Erik is an absolute authority and the godfather of the field of glucose metabolism during exercise and how exercise increases insulin sensitivity in muscle. He was the first to show that contraction can increase muscle glucose up…

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#64 - Blood flow restriction and exercise with Dr Jeremy Loenneke 1:54:52

7M ago1:54:52

1:54:52

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Associate Professor Jeremy Loenneke from the University of Mississippi, USA. He is an expert on resistance training and in particular the effect of blood flow restriction (BFR) on muscle hypertrophy and strength. He is finding that you can get similar increases in hypertrophy, and close to similar increases in strength,…

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#63 - Adipose tissue adaptations to exercise and exercise and antipsychotics with Dr David Wright 1:19:36

8M ago1:19:36

1:19:36

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor David Wright from the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has undertaken a lot of important work on the effect of exercise on muscle glucose uptake and mitochondria and then has branched out to examine the effect of exercise training on mitochondria in adipose tissue (fat). We discussed his work around …

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#62 - Interaction of exercise with muscle circadian clocks with Dr Karyn Esser 1:20:21

8M ago1:20:21

1:20:21

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Karyn Esser from the University of Florida, USA. She is an authority on circadian biology. We discuss whether exercise affects muscle circadian clocks and whether muscle clocks affect exercise. What is the best time to exercise and to eat etc. Also the effects of jet lag and shift work and how to best manage t…

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#61 - Volume versus intensity with Dr David Bishop 1:21:24

8M ago1:21:24

1:21:24

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor David Bishop from Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He has a broad background in exercise physiology research and has focused for many years on exercise and muscle mitochondria. He finds that low volume, prolonged exercise tends to increase mitochondrial volume more than mitochondrial function while…

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#60 - Skeletal muscle aging and mitochondria: thinking beyond the powerhouse with Dr Russell Hepple 1:01:58

8M ago1:01:58

1:01:58

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Russell Hepple from the University of Florida, USA. He is an expert on muscle mitochondria. We tend to think of the mitochondria as the powerhouse of the cell. As Russ clearly explains there is a lot more going on than only this. It is very important that the inner mitochondrial membrane remains impermeable. H…

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#59 - The gut microbiome in health and sport with Dr Orla O'Sullivan 1:20:46

9M ago1:20:46

1:20:46

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Dr Orla O’Sullivan from the Teagasc Food Research Centre, from Ireland. She is a research expert effect of diet and exercise on the gut microbiome (the types of cells in the gut microbiome based on the DNA measurements). She has looked at the gut microbiota in rugby players, cricketers, ironman and other sports. She emp…

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#58 - Exercise in the cold: impacts on performance and health with Dr Mike Tipton 1:31:11

9M ago1:31:11

1:31:11

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Mike Tipton from University of Portsmouth, England. He is an absolute authority on exercise in extreme environments. We talked initially about his important work examining the causes and prevention of drowning in cold water. Autonomic conflict and triathlon mass starts. We then discussed exercise in the cold a…

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#57 - Gut microbiota and exercise with Dr Edward Chambers 1:35:25

9M ago1:35:25

1:35:25

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Dr Edward Chambers from Imperial College London who is an expert on the gut microbiota, exercise and metabolism. He has shown that some fibre can be fermented to short chain fatty acids (SCFA) by gut microbiota which can influence skeletal muscle metabolism. In addition, these SCFA can affect appetite. He has also shown…

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#56 - Muscle plasticity, aging and exercise with Dr Benjamin Miller 1:17:07

9M ago1:17:07

1:17:07

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Benjamin Miller from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) who is an expert on muscle proteostasis /plasticity in response to exercise and aging. He has evidence that muscle atrophy with aging may be due more to increased protein breakdown than reduced protein synthesis. He also has found that the to…

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#55 - Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and exercise with Dr Carlos Henríquez-Olguín 1:29:52

9M ago1:29:52

1:29:52

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Dr Carlos Henríquez-Olguín from The University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Carlos is an up and coming rising star exercise metabolism researcher. He discusses the challenges of doing mechanistic exercise research in Chile and how he ended up moving to the University of Copenhagen. Language challenges etc. He has been doing …

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#54 - Exercise and immunity with Dr Michael Gleeson 1:30:25

10M ago1:30:25

1:30:25

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Emeritus Professor Michael Gleeson from Loughborough University, England. He is the biggest global name with many decades of research examining the effects of exercise and diet on the immune system. Exercise is beneficial for the immune system unless it is undertaken at a very high /elite level. A very interesting chat.…

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#53 - Aging, exercise and muscle mitochondrial energetics with Dr Paul Coen 1:18:52

10M ago1:18:52

1:18:52

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Dr Paul Cohen from Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes, AdventHealth Orlando, Florida, USA. He has a very strong track record of research examining muscle mitochondria in health and disease and in particular the effects of exercise in attenuating the reductions in mitochondrial function with age…

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#52 - Environmental physiology: results and lessons from the lab vs real life with Dr Lars Nybo 1:38:51

10M ago1:38:51

1:38:51

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Lars Nybo from the University of Copenhagen. He is an expert on the effects of environmental conditions on exercise. Here he discussed factors effecting cycling performance and then focused on circumstances where one needs to be careful applying findings from the lab to the real world. A very interesting chat.…

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#51 - Maximizing muscle hypertrophy with Dr Brad Schoenfeld 1:17:47

10M ago1:17:47

1:17:47

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Brad Schoenfeld from Lehman College, The City University of New York, the Bronx, New York. He has a very strong track record on research examining how to maximize muscle hypertrophy and also important protein synthesis and strength studies. He also applies his knowledge being a former personal trainer and a su…

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#50 - Acute catabolic (yes, catabolic...) response of bone to exercise with Dr Wendy Kohrt 1:29:13

11M ago1:29:13

1:29:13

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Wendy Kohrt from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She has an extremely strong track record of research on how exercise affects bone. She has changed her thinking of late after finding that acute exercise actually has a catabolic effect on bone even though overall, it can have beneficial effe…

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#49 - Remarkable benefits of exercise in myopathy patients with Dr Mark Tarnopolsky 1:37:03

11M ago1:37:03

1:37:03

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Mark Tarnopolsky from McMaster University in Canada. Mark has done pioneering studies in many areas including sex differences and exercise, HITT training and creatine supplementation. Today we focus on his remarkable work with muscle myopathies. Exercise can be beneficial in all muscle myopathies in regards to…

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#48 - Dr David Costill: Legend of exercise physiology and human performance 2:12:09

11M ago2:12:09

2:12:09

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Emeritus Professor David “Doc” Costill who is an absolute legend of exercise physiology and human performance. He was Founder and Director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, USA. He made the lab one of the top labs in the world and has a remarkable track record. He supervise…

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#47 - Speed-duration relationship across the animal kingdom with Dr Mark Burnley 1:52:30

11M ago1:52:30

1:52:30

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Dr Mark Burnley from the Loughborough University in England. He is an expert on critical power (cycling) and critical speed (running). We compared and contrasted the speed duration relationship across the animal kingdom. Mark is an absolute wealth of knowledge on exercise intensity domains and critical power etc and com…

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#46 - What are we polarizing in polarized endurance training? Dr Stephen Seiler 1:55:08

12M ago1:55:08

1:55:08

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Stephen Seiler from the University of Agder in Norway. He is American who started his career in USA before moving to Norway almost 30 years ago. He points out that most exercise training research is based around university semesters with mainly untrained to trained transitions which is very different to what a…

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#45 - From heat shock doc to kettlebells with Dr Pope Moseley 1:18:28

12M ago1:18:28

1:18:28

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Pope Moseley from Arizona State University in the United States. Pope has a lung and critical care background. We spoke about his early heat shock protein work with Carl Gisolfi, a giant of research on exercise and the gut. Also heat, heat shock proteins, gut leak and heat stroke, exercise training and gut lea…

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#44 - The science of sports injuries and how to prevent and treat them with Dr Kristian Thorborg 1:44:34

12M ago1:44:34

1:44:34

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Kristian Thorborg from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark who also has s position at Lund University in Sweden. We spoke about the role of the placebo effect, sports injury prevention and especially the role of eccentric exercise, plyometrics, whether stretching reduces sports injuries, prehabilitation, e…

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#43 - The importance of exercise in space with Dr Scott Trappe 1:41:40

1y ago1:41:40

1:41:40

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Scott Trappe, Director of the Human performance laboratory at Ball State University, Indiana, USA. We spoke about the influence that Scott’s supervisor, the great David “Doc” Costill, has had on exercise physiology (long time Ball State HPL Director before Scott). We then discussed the negative effects of spac…

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#42 - Circadian rhythms, exercise and type 2 diabetes with Dr Juleen Zierath 56:19

1y ago56:19

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Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Juleen Zierath who has had a remarkable background with current senior roles at both the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She was also previously the Chair of the Nobel Committee. We discuss the effects of circadian rhythms on: muscle insulin sensitivity, metabolic re…

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#41 - Zone 2 training: why all the talk? With Dr Andrew Coggan 1:28:05

1y ago1:28:05

1:28:05

Dr Glenn McConell chats for a second time with Associate Professor Andrew Coggan from Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA. Andy was an elite time trial cyclist who has a very impressive research track record. He also wrote the first book on training and racing using power (training levels). As was the case last week wit…

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#40 - The history of endurance training methods with Dr Michael Joyner 54:04

1y ago54:04

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Dr Glenn McConell chats for a second time with Professor Michael Joyner from the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA. Michael blew me away with his absolutely amazing knowledge on past athletes and coaches and their endurance training methods. Very different types of training can result in similar results. His running Haiku: Run a lot of miles, some faster…

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#39 - Why muscle glycogen is important with Dr Niels Ørtenblad 1:13:49

1y ago1:13:49

1:13:49

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Niels Ørtenblad from the University of Southern Denmark. He is an expert on muscle glycogen. We discussed the history of muscle glycogen and exercise research, the effect of diet and exercise training on muscle glycogen levels and use, the distribution and use of muscle glycogen within different muscle fibre c…

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#39 - Do keto diets and ketone supplements make sense for exercise and health with Dr Jonathan Little 1:23:33

1y ago1:23:33

1:23:33

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Jonathan Little from University of British Columbia. Kelowna, Canada. He is an expert on metabolism, nutrition, type two diabetes and exercise. We discussed what are keto (ketogenic) diets, different types of keto diets, the rationale for them and their effect on heath and exercise performance. We then did the…

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#38 - Harassment, abuse and mental health in athletes with Dr Margo Mountjoy 1:04:19

1y ago1:04:19

1:04:19

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Margo Mountjoy from McMaster University in Canada. A wide ranging and at times emotional discussion about the types of harassment and abuse (psychological abuse underlies most), prevalence of abuse (higher in marginalized groups), power relationships, reporting policies and procedures, barriers to reporting ab…

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#37 - Exercise in the heat, dehydration, fluid ingestion and circulation with Dr José González-Alonso 1:24:39

1y ago1:24:39

1:24:39

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor José González-Alonso from Brunel Univesity London. We discussed exercise in the heat, dehydration, fluid ingestion, blood flow, metabolism and human circulation. He has a very strong research track record having researched these areas for around 35 years. We discuss how he began his career doing research with …

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#36 - Effect of the menstrual cycle, oral contraception, pregnancy and the menopause on exercise performance with Dr Kirsty Elliott Sale 1:11:29

1y ago1:11:29

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Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Kirsty Elliott-Sale from Manchester Metropolitan University, England. She is an expert on female exercise physiology . We discuss the effects of the menstrual cycle, oral contraception, pregnancy and the menopause on exercise performance. As will become apparent, more research needs to be done on these importa…

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