Co-Developing a Disability-Informed Competency Framework for Qualified Exercise Professionals at Entry-to-Practice: Reflections from a Multi-Phase Partnership
Available online 1 December 2025
Competency-based education (CBE) offers a promising approach to improve qualified exercise professionals’ (QEPs) knowledge, skills, and attitudes to support people experiencing disability in exercise...
Every move counts: Acute effects of sedentary breaks on glucose and lipid metabolism in middle-aged and older adults based on a multi-level meta-analysis
Available online 29 November 2025
Prolonged sedentary behavior contributes to impaired glucose and lipid metabolism, particularly in middle-aged and older adults who are more vulnerable to metabolic decline. However, most evidence comes...
Fatigue at your fingertips: Can a brief handgrip task reveal your subjective fatigue state?
Available online 26 November 2025
Fatigue is a complex concept that includes both subjective sensations and objectively measurable performance decline (fatigability). There is a need for simple, reliable tools to assess fatigability...
Are sex hormone deficiency and skeletal muscle decline related? Exploring the regulation of satellite cells and protein synthesis in menopause
Available online 21 November 2025
The menopause is characterised by a marked reduction in ovarian sex hormones –oestradiol (E2) and progesterone. This hormonal decline has been purported to be associated with reductions in skeletal...
Effects of Different Exercises on Body Composition and Blood Lipids in Normal Weight Obesity: A Meta-Analysis
Available online 11 November 2025
This systematic review with meta-analysis investigates the effects of different types of exercise on body composition and blood lipid profiles in people with Normal Weight Obesity (NWO), aiming to inform...
Precision prevention in exercise: Integrating OMICS biomarkers and artificial intelligence for injury risk assessment
Available online 2 October 2025
Exercise injuries present a significant challenge in medicine and public health, impacting exercise performance, career longevity, and overall quality of life. While OMICS technologies such as genomics,...
The effect of exercise mode on inflammation markers during pregnancy: A narrative review
September 2025
Excessive inflammation during pregnancy can be influenced by maternal factors (e.g., pre-pregnancy obesity, excessive gestational weight gain) and is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Pro-inflammatory...
Clinician-accessible motor assessment with surface EMG: Key parameters and reliability
September 2025
Despite the evident value of surface electromyography (EMG) in neurorehabilitation, its clinical use is limited. Researchers have developed many sophisticated EMG methods to test scientific hypotheses...
Barriers, facilitators, and factors influencing the perceived feasibility of family-based physical activity: The role of socioeconomic status
September 2025
The facilitators and barriers to family-based physical activity, child and parent perceptions of the factors influencing their perceived feasibility of family-based physical activity, and the impact...
Utilizing nasal breathing during aerobic exercise significantly improves respiratory performance
September 2025
Nasal breathing (NB) during aerobic exercise may improve respiratory performance more effectively than utilizing combined breathing (CB)....
Comparison of web-based previous-day recalls and activPAL for measuring screen-based sedentary behavior by segments of day and bouts in Chinese young males
September 2025
The increase in screen-based sedentary behavior (SSB) has become a public concern. Several health outcomes have been found to be related to SSB, and their relationships with different types of SSB activities...
Acute responses of cortisol and C-reactive protein in collegiate female lacrosse athletes during a two-game week
September 2025
It has been noted that female collegiate student-athletes experience personal and academic stress during their competitive season; however, objectively measured stress responses have scarcely been examined....
Exercise interventions for the treatment of inflammatory factors in adults with chronic insomnia: Systematic review and meta-analysis
September 2025
Inflammatory factors play a crucial role in insomnia in adults, and the effect of exercise on improving these factors remains controversial. To explore this further a systematic review and meta-analysis...
Resistance training as a modulator of autophagy in skeletal muscle: A systematic review of molecular mechanisms and adaptive responses
September 2025
Autophagy is a tightly regulated intracellular degradation process essential for maintaining skeletal muscle homeostasis, particularly under metabolic stress, such as resistance exercise. This systematic...
Predicting falls from biomechanical response to balance perturbation in older adults with knee osteoarthritis, an exploratory study
June 2025
The risk of falling in people with knee osteoarthritis is greater than in asymptomatic older adults. Several biomechanical responses have been connected to poor balance in osteoarthritis, but no studies...
Reticulospinal function can be measured in the tibialis anterior using the StartReact method
June 2025
The neurophysiology of dorsiflexor motor pools are highly studied, with previous work showing adaptations in corticospinal tract function, but little is known about the responsiveness of the reticulospinal...
Exploring sleep behaviour in esports and factors associated with sleep quality
June 2025
The demanding training schedules in esports can disrupt regular sleep patterns and contribute to daytime sleepiness. The present study investigated casual and competitive esports players' sleep behaviour...
Effects of L-carnitine supplementation on markers of exercise-induced muscle damage in healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
June 2025
L-carnitine supplementation is purported to attenuate exercise-induced muscle damage, however, individual studies revealed mixed results. Thus, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of...
The effect of endurance, resistance and concurrent training on respiratory capacity of cystic fibrosis patients
June 2025
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a multisystem disease that may affect organ systems, including the respiratory system. Exercise training provides multiple benefits for people with CF. The purpose of this study...
Ketone bodies in exercise, health and disease: Metabolic mechanisms, pathophysiology, and therapeutic implications
June 2025
Ketone bodies (KBs) are alternative metabolic fuels predominantly produced in the liver during periods of carbohydrate restriction, prolonged fasting, or ketogenic dietary intake. Beyond energy metabolism,...
Can the inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase 3 mimic the physiological effects of exercise on muscle and other organs?
June 2025
Regular exercise is widely recognized for its numerous health benefits, including enhancing overall well-being, reducing the risk of or alleviating symptoms from various chronic diseases, and slowing...
Exercise-triggered cardiac remodeling: AKIP1 as a novel mediator of physiological hypertrophy
June 2025
A kinase interacting protein 1 (AKIP1) is a signal transduction junction protein that promotes physiological hypertrophy. This study aimed to investigate whether exercise induces AKIP1 to promote physiological...
The interplay of leptin and the peripheral endocannabinoid system in energy homeostasis and obesity, Modulation by linoleic acid and exercise
March 2025
Obesity is a major global health epidemic. Obesity and its associated comorbidities diminish the quality of life and have negative financial impacts. Obesity is a complex disease that involves the interplay...
Time spent in lifestyle activities is associated with better insulin sensitivity and physical fitness in a sedentary Mexican American male population
March 2025
Sedentary behavior is highly prevalent in modern societies and has been shown to be a major risk factor for developing diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. It is well established that physical activity...
Multi-scale neural homeostasis mechanisms: Insights into neurodegenerative diseases and therapeutic approaches, including exercise
March 2025
Neural homeostasis plays a crucial role in enabling the nervous system to adapt to internal and external perturbations by modulating molecular activity, synaptic dynamics, and structural stability....