@ExpPhysiol@CollantesMD @DrMJoyner @MayoAnesthesia@IlliniHealthKin@MayoClinicCV@DukeLaw World Map showing the distribution of top athletics athletes. (a) The number of athletes from each country from 1950 to 1989 (the year out-of-competition drug testing started). (b) The number of athletes from 1990 to 2023. (c) The all-time number of athletes (1950–2023).
Curious how cardiac output, leg blood flow, O₂ delivery & O₂ extraction differ between highly-trained females and males in limiting VO₂max?
And impacts of normalizing for muscle mass?
We examined this using thermodilution & blood gas analyses:
https://t.co/mFZXC1zxeQ
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I’ll come out of my social media hibernation and share some of what I’ve been up to 🤷♂️
I’ve enjoyed integrating lung mechanics 🫁 and CV function🫀. First piece out the IEEM tackles dynamic hyperinflation on measurable LV filling pressures in HFpEF.
https://t.co/IG3ifhcT6n
Last month, I chatted with @ShalayaKipp about the research published in Royal Society Open Science that modeled Faith Kipyegon’s energy output across multiple pacing strategies and determined she could go as fast as 3:59.37—the exact time Bannister clocked in 1954.
We discuss it here ⤵️
SPOTIFY: https://t.co/Cnvltx0zUW
APPLE PODCASTS: https://t.co/EOBw995qjW
There were some hints that Breaking4 was coming.
Out now @ExpPhysiol from @ShalayaKipp@jwsenefeld @DrMJoyner: Sex differences in elite track and field performances and inferences about steroid doping 👇
https://t.co/Xa4JeNJceJ
Some more work completed with @ShalayaKipp and the wonderful collaboration of @lululemon
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We take a look into the effect waistbands on intra-abdominal pressure and respiratory mechanics during bodyweight exercise
@JSCRonline@UBCKin
https://t.co/CdiGkVSgIF
My daughter is a great source of my motivation. On many occasions when I fall short of coming first, she calls to ask why I never win. I'm really motivated by that. 💝
When should sports be cancelled due to #AirQuality?
I'm trying to compile policies. Here is a link to access the spreadsheet.
https://t.co/qcl50RmR35
DM me if you have ones you'd like included. It's currently Canada-centric🇨🇦 , but I'd love to broaden it. And please share.
Our latest work (@SKHunterPhD) reviews the current understanding of sex differences in human performance and highlights underlying physiological mechanisms contributing to these sex differences.
https://t.co/PsXQGQh4jU
Using femoral venous and transpulmonary thermodilution, we were able to directly measure leg blood flow simultaneously with cardiac output during high-intensity running.
You can see the process here, and in the supplemental materials of our paper
When you think about VO2max, your might imagine those large leg muscles consuming all the oxygen. But what about the respiratory muscles!
Here we look at how much oxygen the respiratory muscles consume during exercise.
Based on our observations, there seems to be an upper limit to the fraction of total oxygen the respiratory muscles consume. The fraction of oxygen the respiratory muscles consumed (VO2RM) seemed to hit a ceiling around 18-19%.
There is plenty more in our paper on respiratory muscle efficiency, sub-maximal workloads, the work of breathing, and energy vs oxygen estimates of cost! 👇
https://t.co/69K68zaisu
It's possible the higher fraction of VO2RM during peak exercise predispose young females and older individuals to divert more blood flow to respiratory muscles at the expense of other muscles, which could compromising exercise performance.