Dr Lex Mauger publishes three key papers in the January Issue of BJSM

Dr Lex Mauger, lecturer and director of studies for Sports Science at the Centre for Sports Studies has recently published three key papers in the January issues of British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM).

1) Beltrami, G.F., Froyd, C.F., Mauger, A.R., Metcalfe, A.J., Marino, F., Noakes, T.D (2012). Conventional testing methods produce submaximal values of maximum oxygen consumption. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 46: 23-29. click here to view pdf

2) Williams, C.A., Bailey, S.D., Mauger, A.R (2012). External exercise information provides no immediate additional performance benefit to untrained individuals in time trial cycling. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 46: 49-53. click here to view pdf

3) Mauger, A.R and Sculthorpe, N (2012). A new VO2max protocol allowing self-pacing in maximal incremental exercise. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 46: 59-63. click here to view pdf

Lex is mainly interested in how the body, as an integrative system maintains a relative homeostasis during exercise through the anticipatory regulation of work rate. In addition, he is also interested in the role of the different afferents produced during exercise, and how these may be responded to by systems of central control.

Lex and James Hopker have now started testing for a new project looking at the influence of paracetamol on brain to muscle pathways using transcranial magnetic stimulation.