ODU Human Performance Lab

Looking for runners for a 5k study. We've changed our criteria to those that can run a 16-22 minute 5k. See attached flyer for details.

Check out new research from Dr. Wilson on the behaviors related to long-term successful weight loss in Americans

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302956?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed&

American Public Health Association - Physical Activity and Dietary Determinants of Weight Loss... Methods. I categorized the dietary and physical activity data of 8012 adults from the 2009–2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys into (1) long-term weight losers (≥ 10% loss for ≥ 1 year), (2) recent weight losers (≥ 10% loss within past year), and (3) overweight or obese individual…

HPL Director Patrick Wilson was recently featured on a podcast about managing gastrointestinal distress for ultra-runners

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/science-of-ultra

16 GI Distress with Dr. Patrick Wilson Dec 22, 2015 - My guest today is Patrick Wilson, PhD and RD. He is Assistant Professor of exercise science in the Human Movement Sciences Department at Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, VA, where he also directs the Human Performance Laboratory. He earned a Ph.D. in Kinesiology from the Universit…