Ben Hunter

I’m sure the flag shagging “PrOtEcT aRe WoMeN aNd GiRlS” brigade are on their way to march on New Scotland Yard…

UK universities cut back on crucial research because of reduced funding One in five institutions spending less, including in areas such as cancer and heart disease, says report

So the key aspect that makes a university is its research, so what is it when there's no or little research? A college?? A serious errosion of knowledge creation.
UK universities cut back on crucial research because of reduced funding www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A key attack line in the next few years coming from Trump/MAGA and Reform is that university teachers (lecturers/professors) are poisoning the minds of young people, brainwashing them into leftist thinking. Make no mistake, this is a pretext to defund the sector. 1/n

Sex differences in durability following heavy intensity cycling exercise in trained athletes The ability to withstand impairments in key physiological variables during prolonged exercise, known as durability, is emerging as an important factor in cycling performance. While females possess phy...

The preprint of our latest sex differences research is now online:

“Sex differences in durability following heavy intensity cycling exercise in trained athletes”

The result of a very fun collaboration between research groups with similar interests! 🇮🇹🇬🇧

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please may I get a copy? Looking forward to reading the full text!

Tomorrow at @ecssofficial.bsky.social I’ll be discussing our findings on the durability of marathon runners and its association with performance.

🗓️ 02.07.2025, 13:15
📍 Lavatoio

If you’re not attending and would like a copy of the slides, get in touch.

New paper out in Scand J Med Sci Sports!

We tested the reliability of running economy (RE) and other physiological parameters during 90 min of running.

➡️ Running economy is highly reliable in a fatigued state, a 👍🏼 implication for testing durability

🆓📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Our new durability paper is out in SJMSS!

We tested how endurance performance determinants change after heavy-intensity running (90 and 120 min) in well-trained marathoners.

📌Below details of what we’ve found.

🆓 Open-Access
📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Excellent morning at the Marathon Medicine conference with some great speakers.

Biomech students are going to have this on repeat to demonstrate the Magnus effect. I’m not sorry.

Check out this excellent #Review from @benshunter.bsky.social et al., which delves into what we know about and how we approach physiological durability!

physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Durability as an index of endurance exercise performance: Methodological considerations Endurance athletes routinely complete physiological assessments to predict performance, inform training programmes and monitor subsequent training adaptations. This profiling is typically performed w...

New in @expphysiol.bsky.social from @benshunter.bsky.social et al: Durability as an index of endurance exercise performance: Methodological considerations 👇

physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Durability as an index of endurance exercise performance: Methodological considerations Endurance athletes routinely complete physiological assessments to predict performance, inform training programmes and monitor subsequent training adaptations. This profiling is typically performed w...

Link to the OA text here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Recently there’s been plenty of good work in the (re?)emerging field of durability.

Our review published in @expphysiol.bsky.social
explores key methodological approaches and considerations to be made when profiling durability in research and applied settings.

Thanks. Looking forward to reading it.

Had the Cambridge half this morning and bombed around mile 8, so not feeling too hot. There’s a joke about durability in there somewhere…

Hope you’re enjoying the post PhD life!

Great work Michele. Please may I have a copy?

The relationship between muscle oxygen saturation kinetics and maximal blood lactate accumulation rate across varying sprint cycle durations This study evaluated the relationship between muscle oxygen saturation (SmO2) and the maximal blood lactate accumulation rate (vLamax) during three test durations (10, 15 and 30 s) to validate the op...

Our new paper is out today looking at 'The relationship between muscle oxygenation and maximal blood lactate accumulation rate across varying cycling durations'

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Blue plaque review series: A.V. Hill, athletic records and the birth of exercise physiology Abstract figure legend Depiction of the world running records from 1925 studied by A. V. Hill and those of 2025 up to and including ultradistance events on a semi-logarithmic plot. These records, in ...

A.V. Hill was a hero, a genius, and the most upright person Bernard Katz ever met. He helped bring exercise physiology into being. Here’s our review of that story, published in @jphysiol.bsky.social. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tom's Weekend Warrior study is out! Training either 4x (short) or 2x (long) weekly resulted in the same adaptations, when overall volume and content of training was fixed.

Performance, thresholds, efficiency, Hbmass, and ox cap ↑ equally in both groups.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Polarised🆚Pyramidal🆚Threshold

Which training model is best?🏆
It might matter how trained you are🤔

Our new meta-analysis tries to answer which training intervention produces the greatest improvements in endurance performance in trained athletes

Thread🧵 & 🔗links below👇
#SportScience #EnduranceSport