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Additional Intra- or Inter-session Balance Tasks Do Not Interfere With the Learning of a Novel Balance Task

On 17 July 2018, a new sports, performance and health diagnostics centre opened at the University of Konstanz. The Human Performance Research Centre (HPRC) will be used for large-scale health studies and is open to all potential study participants. Future partnerships with sports clubs and associations as well as with hospitals are planned.

dealing with motor learning and balance, inactivity and countermeasures

a new publication by Gernot O. Hering, Ewald M. Hennig, Hartmut J. Riehle and Jens Stepan

Die Arbeitsgruppe Trainings- und Bewegungswissenschaft sucht ab 01. April 2018 Unterstützung in einem Lehrentwicklungsprojekt zur Verbesserung der Methodenausbildung im Bereich Lehre (Umfang von 20h/Monat)

The article "Neuroplasticity following short-term strength training occurs at supraspinal level and is specific for the trained Task" has been published in Acta Physiologica. It is known that training, including strength training, follows the specificity principle: "You get what you train for". Here, we observed that after 4 strength training sessions, the corticospinal excitability, but not the spinal excitability, was decreased, but only while performing the trained strength task and not while…

The article "How to prevent the detrimental effects of two months of bed-rest on muscle, bone and cardiovascular system: an RCT" was published in "Scientific Reports".

The study investigated the effects of a short intensive jump training program as a countermeasure to inactivity during two months of bedrest. The results show that the low-volume, high-intensity jump training protocol used in the study was very effective despite its very short duration (three minutes of exercise per training…

The article "Kinetic analysis of oxygen dynamics under a variable work rate" was published in Human Movement Science.

Leistungsfähigkeit des Menschen - zu diesem Thema informierte das Sensorimotor Perfomance Lab bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft auf dem Haupt-Campus. Interessierte konnten dabei ihre maximale Leistung im Sprung, oder auf dem Fahrradergometer selber bestimmen. Der Stand fand sehr großen Anklang, sodass die fleißigen Helfer Nicolai Lorke und Sandra Wacker selbst eine Stunde nach Ende der Veranstaltung noch Fragen beantworten mussten. Vielen Dank für das Interesse und bis zum nächsten Jahr!