Download UMD`s Exercise Physiology Laboratory

UMD’s Exercise Physiology
Laboratory
Objectives
• Overview of the equipment used in the
exercise physiology laboratory.
• Briefly discuss how each piece is used.
• See some of the equipment in action as it
is used in data collection for research.
Some of the equipment…
• This a monark cycle ergometer. It can be used to test
fitness levels and as a mechanism for exercise
prescription. Also pictured is a blood pressure cuff used
to monitor blood pressure during exercise.
This is an oxygen analyzer. It is used to identify the percentages of
both Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in expired air. It can also measure
volume of expired oxygen.
Pictured here is one of 4 treadmills in the lab that are used for various
research projects, exercise testing and prescription and for exercise
itself. Next to it is a EKG machine that can monitor and print a person’s
EKG during exercise
This is a data collection computer along with
cameras to record, process, and digitize data.
Now lets take a look at some of this
equipment in action, collecting data.
First, we set up a reference frame so that when the picture
is recorded the points of interest of the body can be marked
in the computer digitizing system.
Then we remove the reference frame and get our subject hooked up to
the oxygen analyzer and heart rate monitor. He also has insoles in that
transmit his foot pressure during the data collection phase to another
computer where it is recorded.
The test then begins and we are all at our stations to collect
data at various points of each trials. This is where the foot
pressure sensor transmits to.
All the data can then later be processed and used in
various class research projects or UROP’s. This concludes
our tour of the Exercise Physiology Lab at UMD!
Exercise Science Research
Related Links
• Exercise Physiology and Human
Physiology www.d.umn.edu/~jkeener
• Human Biomechanics
www.d.umn.edu/~mlevy
• Motor Learning
www.d.umn.edu/~dmillsla