New opportunities enabling local athletes to improve their performance are on offer at Reaseheath College in Nantwich.   The college’s progressive sports department has created performance physiological testing packages for athletes using the high specification equipment in its sport performance centre. The packages aim to enable athletes, from novice to competitive standard, to reach their...

Dr. Gilles Testou, sports medicine physician at Centre de Médecine et Traumatologie du Sport in Ajaccio, shows a Cardio Pulmonary Exercise Test with COSMED Quark CPET on bike and treadmill. The stress test with the measurement of gas exchange is an examination that assesses the aerobic fitness of an athlete. This exploration is also widely used to determine the origin of exertional dyspnea (abnormal...

Dr. Barry A. Franklin, PhD, Director of Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation at Beaumont Health (Michigan), talks about cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) as an important tool to evaluate exercise capacity and prevent cardiac risks.   The Cardiovascular Performance Clinic at Beaumont offers comprehensive counseling and physiologic screening to amateur and professional athletes,...

Objective information on soccer player physical status is an important factor for coaches and managers enabling selection and training.  A comprehensive approach to analyse the physiological profiles of soccer players, with a specific focus on Cardiorespiratory fitness, provides accurate information to assess the complete picture of player abilities.  Discover more about COSMED Quark CPET [...