Providing evidence based teachings in anatomy, physiology, biological adaptation, and practical physical assessment to students from a variety of backgrounds who wish to become exercise clinicians, coaches, personal trainers, and researchers. Of particular interest is a concerted effort to restructure teaching and training of human movement in classrooms, clinics, and gyms away from the conventional isolationist approach and towards a more science based, unified systems, and utilitarian approach.

Research

Always evolving in interests, but recent works include - Markers of tissue damage as indicators of chronic over-exertion in exercise training - Exploration of physiological measures that indentify the precise stimulus(i) that induces adaptation in oxygen consumption capacity in the human - Chronic training effects on resting testosterone and cortisol levels and how changes influence human performance - Analysis of and the application of physical law and geometry to anatomical  systems during lifting movements to establish a scientific basis for "safe and effective" exercise technique - The role of Heat Shock Proteins (HSP70 family specifically) in muscular remodelling during hypertrophy, atrophy, and subsequent to  myocardial infarction - Explorations of the operational paradigm of modern "exercise science" to discern it's theoretical basis - Creation of a functional and measurable definition of fitness - some recent and ongoing Laboratory Projects.

Illustration

Art or illustration? One's for fun, one's for a purpose? Anatomical illustration is a periodic endeavor that has a purpose and is fun but there are always design things that are just fun to do.

Contact

If you have a question, send them here, About one to two hundred e-mails come in each day so if you are posing a question needing a long response, it may take a bit of time to get your response. I'm notoriously difficult to get on the phone since my work days are split between two campus locations, different classrooms, laboratorys (teaching and research), weightrooms, meetings, drawing studio, writing garrett, the library, and more. 

 

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