What kind of activities does a Sports Physiologist undertake?
A – Physiologists at the AIS provide expert assistance and advice to AIS athletes and coaches in order to improve sporting performance. Physiologists perform routine exercise testing for AIS athletes and athletes in national sporting teams. These tests are aimed at determining VO2 max , economy, anaerobic threshold in individual sports such as cycling, rowing, and running; peak power both in the laboratory and in the field, time to exhaustion on various maximal effort performances; and quantifying agility, power, maximal jump height, sprint times, acceleration and flexibility in team game athletes. Physiologists also carry out research in an effort to expand and enhance scientific knowledge of sporting performance.
