Research Activities:

· Innovative altitude and/or heat training methods for team sports;

· Repeated sprint ability and environmental stress;

· Maximising/minimising internal/external load with hypoxia exposure during perceptually-regulated exercise;

· Mechanical alterations during exhaustive runs in hypoxic and hot conditions;

· Therapeutic use of hypoxia to improve cardio-metabolic health of ‘at risk’ patients.

Research Activities:

· Utility of Ischemic Preconditioning in Olympic racing sports. This involves determining optimal dose/response, timing and protocols of this ergogenic aid in different sport settings (i.e. sprint kayak);

· Use of heat and/or hypoxic stimuli to augment training adaptations in Olympic racing sports (Sprint Kayak, Cycling and Rowing), including short term heat blocks, live high altitude exposures and train high altitude exposures;

· Effect of different environmental conditions on other athlete responses such as sleep, mood, energy availability and immunology.

Research Activities:

· Understanding the relative influence of musculo-tendinous and neural factors on human movement performance;

· Assessment of the acute and chronic responses of musculo-tendinous and neural factors to exercise training, detraining, environmental stress, and other interventions;

· Linking acute and chronic neuromuscular changes to physical performance outcomes.

Research Activities:

· The effect of heat on sport performance;

· Methods to combat the negative effects of heat on sport performance (heat acclimatisation/acclimation and pre-cooling);

· Combination of both precooling and heat acclimation on sport performance in the heat.

Research Activities:

· Impact of ergogenic aids, pre-cooling and other methods on human performance in extreme environments;

· Effect of environmental conditions on human performance in military and emergency service environments, including methods of combating negative effects;

· Acclimatising/acclimating to cope with extreme environments;

· Effect of physique on human performance in extreme environments.

Research Activities:

· Application of hypoxia in combination with exercise in clinical conditions;

· Endocrine and metabolic responses to exercise performed in hypoxia;

· Appetite responses to exercise performed under various environmental stress.

Research Activities:

· Enhancing team sport performance and optimising environmental interventions to improve athlete performance and availability;

· Repeat-sprint training in hypoxia for team sport performance;

· Combined heat and hypoxic stress to enhance performance in swimmers;

· Strategies to improve outcomes from live-high, train-low simulated altitude camps;

· Blood flow restriction training which remains an area of interest.

Research Activities:

· Hypoxia and mitochondrial function during exercise;

· Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of human muscle during exercise;

· Cardiovascular function and athlete heart health during hypoxic exercise and training;

· Application of environmental stressors to treatment of chronic disease.

Research Activities:

· Improving physiological and cognitive performance in the heat;

· Effect of precooling via ice ingestion on endurance performance in the heat;

· Effect of precooling via ice ingestion on cognitive performance during exercise in the heat;

· Effect of menthol mouth rinse on cognitive performance during exercise in the heat.

Research Activities:

· Mechanisms of muscle pain induced by eccentric exercise;

· Characteristics of muscle damage induced by eccentric exercise;

· The repeated bout effect that attenuates the magnitude of muscle damage induced by single eccentric exercise bout;

· Effects of eccentric exercise training in hypoxia on health and disease prevention;

· Effects of exercise on health, fitness and anti-ageing.

Research Activities:

· Acute physiological, perceptual, and performance-based responses to resistance exercise in hypoxia;

· Using hypoxia to increase muscular development associated with resistance training;

· Understanding the best way to implement hypoxic resistance training to increase muscle size and strength;

· Therapeutic use of hypoxia to improve training responses in individuals who cannot tolerate heavy workloads.

Research Activities:

· Interaction between environmental stress (heat/altitude) and training adaptation; 

· Nutritional (supplement) considerations for athletes training in such environments.

Research Activities:

· Influence of heat on effectiveness of high intensity interval training;

· Heat as an additional stressor/training stimuli;

· Metabolic changes associated with systemic hypoxia.

Research Activities:

. Impact of hydration on thermoregulation and performance in the heat;

. Monitoring of responses to exercise in the heat;

. Sweat rate/composition and performance in the heat.