Dr. Jack Raglin is a kinesiology professor from Indiana University Bloomington and was recently featured in the ACSM spotlight! His work is primarily focussed on sports psychology and today we discuss his recent work with the placebo effect and how it can be used in exercise!

Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45 am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!

Today's guest, Dr. Troy Hornberger, is a physiology professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with research focussing on factors that impact skeletal muscle mass. Dr. Hornberger shares his latest research with phosphoproteomics and his experience with bioinformatics tools and data processing with exercise physiology!

Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45 am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!

Today's guest, Dr. Matthew Kostek, is the founder and current director of the Laboratory of Muscle and Translational Therapeutics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh! Dr. Kostek is an associate professor in their Department of Physical Therapy here to discuss his work with exercise as an adjuvant to contemporary dystrophy treatments!

Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45 am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!

Today we have another interesting guest from the world of sports medicine and human performance! Dr. Matt Jensen is a former professional rower with several World Championship and World Cup medals for Canada who recently published a study on the effects of a carbohydrate mouth rinse! The study focusses on cycling time trials and how something as simple as a mouthwash can actually marginally improve results, which can be the difference in 1st or 15th place on the professional stage for high-perfo...

Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45 am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!

Today we have a special guest slightly different than usual, Dr. Reuben Buford May is a professor of sociology at Texas A&M with expertise in race and culture, urban sociology, and sociology of sport. Dr. May was recently awarded the Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence award, the most prestigious faculty honor bestowed by Texas A&M University for his work in the classroom. Outside of the classroom, however, he is a rapper by the name of Reginald S. Stuckey often seen performing on str...

Today we have a special guest from the world of Sports Medicine, Dr. Donato Rivas! Dr. Rivas discusses sarcopenia and the role of microRNA on age and contraction-induced skeletal muscle growth. If you're interested in how to prevent muscle mass loss with aging and the science behind it then this is the podcast for you!