Inside Exercise

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor John Hawley from the Australian Catholic University on Exercise and type 2 diabetes. John is one of the most recognized names in exercise metabolism. He has published over 300 journal articles (Google scholar: 40,000 citations, H index 113). We discussed many things (see time stamps below). 0:00. Introduction 1:34. Putting exercise and diet ahead of medical i...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Jørgen Jensen from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences about Carbohydrate and protein requirements of endurance athletes. He has over 30 years of experience examining these areas. We focussed on muscle glycogen depletion during exercise and glycogen resynthesis after exercise. He thinks no mechanistic link between glycogen content and fatigue. Also discuss...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Claude Bouchard about Genetics and exercise in health and performance. He recently retired at 82 yrs from the Louisiana State University Pennington Biomedical Research Center. He had made an amazing contribution with an H index of 191 and 173,000 citations!! (Google scholar).    0:00. Introduction  1:06. Got Covid19 then went flying fishing!&nb...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Eddie Coyle from the University of Texas at Austin. Eddie has been instrumental in our understanding of the effects of carbohydrate ingestion and fluid ingestion during prolonged exercise and also physiological characteristics of endurance athletes (amongst other areas). Here we talk about his more recent very important and novel work.  0:00 Introduction...

Dr Glenn McConell talks with Professor Abbie Smith-Ryan from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill about Women in science and female exercise physiology. Abbie has done remarkably well to publish 165 papers and be rapidly promoted to full Professor. Abbie talks about the challenges for women in science and also her research with female exercise physiology.    0:00. Introduction an...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Jerry Dempsey from the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health on "Is the lung built for exercise". Jerry is a legend and the most recognizable name in the area, having examined the respiratory system and exercise for 60 years. He is 84 and although he says he retired at 82 he is still heavily involved.   0:00. Introduction&n...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Kathryn Schmitz from Penn State University who is a world leading cancer researcher who has been involved in many guidelines on exercise in cancer. We have all been touched by cancer in various ways and I feel confident that you will get a lot out of this.   0:00.  Introduction and how got into the area  5:23. Lifestyle factors contribute to ca...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Benjamin Levine who has the best global research track record in Sports cardiology/cardiovascular physiology and exercise. He is the founder and Director of the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology and Distinguished Professor of Exercise Sciences at the Univer...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Louise Burke from Australian Catholic University. Louise is an extremely experienced academic dietician and practitioner with probably the best current track record in the area. In a wide ranging discussion we discussed many things including how she got into the field ("by accident"), the importance of high CHO intake compared with high fat/ketogenic diets fo...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor David Wasserman from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. David is recognised as an absolute authority on glucose homeostasis. His research focuses on how the system acts to protect sugar levels during exercise and disease.  This talk is wide ranging with a focus on the liver. We discuss the large range of roles of the liver, how it mainta...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Andy Jones from the University of Exeter in England about the incredible Eliud Kipchoge and what it took for him to break 2 hr for the marathon distance. Professor Jones, who has an exception research track record, conducted a study with 16 world class marathon runners to determine what factors are required to run a marathon in 2 hr. He then used this data an...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Marty Gibala from McMaster University in Canada about the physiological effects of high intensity interval training (HIIT) compared with continuous submaximal exercise training. Comparisons between the effects of HIIT and sprint interval training (SIT) are also discussed. The immense interest in HIIT was initiated by a ground breaking study that Marty conduct...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Michael Riddell from York University in Canada who is the number 1 exercise and type 1 diabetes (T1D) researcher in the world.  Michael has T1D as does his son which has greatly motivated him in his research. We discuss a lot of aspects of T1D and exercise including what is T1D, the effect of T1D on exercise metabolism and on health, the beneficial effec...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Bret Goodpaster from Advent Health in Florida, USA on exercise and aging. Bret has undertaken  ground breaking work on the factors contributing to insulin resistance and aging and the role of exercise to overcome insulin resistance and slow aging. We discuss these aspects with a focus on skeletal muscle.  Bret points out that physiological reserve c...

Dr Glenn McConell chats with Associate Professor Andrew Coggan who is a very highly regarded exercise metabolism researcher and also THE guru of using power with cycling exercise training. After a brief chat about his background and cycling prowess and the use of cycling power, we focus on his research on nitrate and whether nitrate supplementation via beetroot ingestion improves strength and exer...