Sport Medicine/Science
Nutrition & Physical Recovery Questionnaire
Athletes are invited to participate in the following online Questionnaire. By completing the Questionnaire, participants will automatically* be entered into a draw for one of 8 GREAT PRIZES on offer. To read about, and to complete the Nutrition & Physical Recovery Questionnaire, logon to http://www.ais.org.au/nutrition/questionniare.asp. The online questionnaire is open until the 1st December 2006.
* Prizes can only be awarded to participants who provide a contact email address; email addresses are only collected for purpose of giving prizes.
Meg Ross
PhD Candidate - Deakin University
Department of Physiology
Australian Institute of Sport
BONE HEALTH RESEARCH STUDY
The Victorian Weightlifting Association and the Bone Health Research Team at Deakin University have received funding from the Department of Victorian Communities to conduct an important study to investigate the effect of weightlifting training on the growth and development of bone in the adolescent.
This funding is to extend Deakin University's work conducted on female tennis players. The main outcomes of this work have shown us that in females exercise before puberty may be more beneficial for bone health than a similar amount of exercise after puberty. These findings have been published in a prestigious international medical journal. The aim of this further work is to extend our findings relating to female tennis players into the more specific effect of weight resistance training and to investigate if similar responses occur in males. This research will make an important contribution to our understanding of the role of exercise in the prevention of osteoporosis in both females and males and on the effect of weight bearing exercise on skeletal development.
We seek students to participate in this important study. Testing will take place either at Deakin University in Burwood or at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Carlton and will take approximately one and a half hours. This study has full approval from the Deakin University Ethic Committee.