The field of clinical exercise physiology focuses on the study of acute physiological as well as pathophysiological responses to physical activity and how regular exercise alters human form and functional capacity. This field originated in the last century and is now a mainstream scientific discipline with overlap to the fields of medicine and the sport sciences.
Clinical exercise physiology has a strong foundation in basic science and applied research approaches to the study of acute and chronic adaptations to exercise, ranging from sub-cellular to systemic levels of organisation. The applied clinical branch of the field involves the application of various exercise modalities for the assessment of physiologic functional capacity in healthy individuals and the diagnosis and rehabilitation of dysfunction in those with chronic disease and disability.
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Membership of the Clinical Exercise Physiology Interest Group continues to grow, including all disciplines within the BASES organisation. If you are interested in joining the group, new members are most welcome and anyone interested should contact:
John is an experienced exercise physiologist who has worked with a range of groups from cardiac patients to elite level athletes. After leaving the Armed Forces in 1992, he completed his degree in Exercise Physiology at the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education and then went on to gain an MSc in Exercise and Nutrition Science from the University of Liverpool. The next seven years was spent working in cardiac rehabilitation in the North West of England before taking a post, teaching Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Chichester. John is a keen athlete who regularly competes in endurance events. Each year he completes several long distance mountain bike challenges and participates in 24 hour mountain bike races. He has cycled most of the long distance bridleways in the UK and several in Europe and the USA, including the Great Divide, which is a 2,500 mile off road wilderness ride from Canada to the Mexican border. He is also a qualified mountain bike instructor. Since moving to West Sussex he has taken up two new sports, surfing and snow-boarding. Whilst West Wittering does not have the best surf in the UK, it provides sufficient waves to keep John entertained through the long English winters. His research interests include the assessment of autonomic function and the effects of prolonged endurance exercise, increasing performance in mountain biking and the effects of exercise on chronic health conditions.
Simon is primarily interested in the limitations to and control of oxidative metabolism at the onset of and during maximal exercise in health and disease. He employs non-invasive (pulmonary oxygen uptake kinetics, near infrared spectroscopy) and invasive (blood and muscle sampling) techniques to examine this area. In addition he is interested in fuel metabolism, in particular the maximisation of fat metabolism during exercise.
Publications:
No effect of glutamine supplementation and hyperoxia on oxidative metabolism and performance during high intensity exercise. S. Marwood & J. L. Bowtell (2008) J Sports Sci. 26(10): 1081-90
Realising E-learning Matters in a bioscience cohort. D. Parry D, C. Larsen, S. Marwood & C. Walsh (2007) Bioscience Education Electronic Journal 10(9)
Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle intermediate pool size: functional importance for oxidative metabolism in exercising human skeletal muscle. J. L. Bowtell, S. Marwood, M. Bruce, D. Constantin-Teodosiu, P. L. Greenhaff (2007). Sports Med. 37(12): 1071-88
Effect of glutamine and hyperoxia on pulmonary oxygen uptake & muscle dexoygenation kinetics. S. Marwood and J.L. Bowtell (2007). Eur J Appl Physiol. 99(2):149-61
Effects of a superimposed vibration-like stimulus during leg extension exercise. K. Mileva, A. Naleem, S. Biswas, S. Marwood and J. L. Bowtell (2006). Med Sci Sports Exerc. 38(7):1317-28