Howdy! Welcome to We Do the Heavy Lifting where Dr. Jenna Yentes breaks down topics over improving human performance which features diverse experts on current health and fitness topics. The first podcast guest is Dr. Mark Faries! Dr. Faries is an associate professor at Texas A&M University and teaches 2 classes on health myth busting, HPCH 689 Social and Behavioral Health and PHLT 489 Public Health Special Topics. Dr. Fairies also has a blog called https://www.fitnesspudding.com/?start=40 wh...

Today’s podcast guest is the one and only Dr. Tim Lightfoot! Dr. Timothy Lightfoot is currently the Debbie and Mike Hilliard Endowed Professor of Kinesiology and the Executive Director of the Sydney and JL Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance at Texas A&M University and is joining us to talk about the path through academia. Dr. Lightfoot has written two books, “ Surviving Your First Five Years As A Faculty Member: Living and Prospering in Academia” and “Finding the Be...

Today's podcast guest is the newest addition to the Huffines Institute, Dr. Jenna Yentes! Dr. Yentes' research focus at Texas A&M is primarily on functional resiliency and reserve in older adults. Her previous research focused on functional outcomes in those that suffer from pulmonary disease, namely chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Dr. Yentes’ group were the first to document biomechanical changes in gait in persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She has also explore...

Our podcast guest today is Dr. Jeff Potteiger, a professor in the Department of Movement Science at Grand Valley State University. He received his Ph.D. from Auburn University, his M.S. degree from McDaniel College, and his B.S. degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Potteiger has been a faculty member at Indiana State University, the University of Kansas, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Miami University. Dr. Potteiger has served in university administrative roles as a laborat...

Today our guest, Dr. Sue Bloomfield kicks off the first episode of our “History of Exercise Science” series! Dr. Bloomfield achieved her B.S. in Biology at Oberlin College in Ohio, her M.A. in Physical Education at the University of Iowa, and her Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology at The Ohio State University, then joined the Health and Kinesiology faculty at Texas A&M in 1993. Her research interests focused on the integrative physiology of bone, with specific reference to skeletal adaptations to di...

It’s Podcast Friday! Join us today for our discussion of a large new study that has shown that regular moderate exercise is the second best way to prevent COVID hospitalization and death. Dr. Bob Sallis from Kaiser Permanente and former President of the American College of Sports Medicine joins us to discuss their recent huge study about the effect of regular exercise on COVID responses. This study was unique in that it had almost 49,000 subjects with at least 6 months of exercise data befor...

We are excited to bring you a conversation with a former Huffines Institute podcast producer Ms. Kelli Selman and her adventures since leaving the Huffines Institute. This conversation is targeted to those individuals who want to work in the strength and conditioning field and illustrates how to get in the field and the opportunities available for those in the field. Did we mention China? If you want ACSM’s recommendations on exercising during the COVID-19 pandemic follow the link: bit.ly/E...

Here is a great multi-speaker video - made for student athletes at Texas A&M - that answers all the questions you have about getting the COVID vaccination. The expert panel is made up of: - Dr. JP Bramhall (MD) Team Physician for Texas A&M and Founder of Central Texas Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics, - Dr. Shawn Gibbs, Dean of the School of Public Health at Texas A&M, - Dr. Laura Marsh (MD) Central Texas Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics, - Dr. Sheri Walters Director of Olympic Sports Ath...

One of the biggest reasons for people not to get COVID vaccinated is concerns about the safety of the vaccine. While there are many sources of information on this topic, the best is the scientific literature where this has actually been studied. Most people don’t know that they can easily access these scientific papers and read them for themselves. The podcast covers tips and tricks to finding these papers and understanding what they say (hint: it’s not hard!). So, join us to today as we ...

Are you wondering why people don't want to get the COVID vaccine? Join the Huffines Institute podcast today as we talk 'vaccine hesitancy' with Dr. Tim Callaghan from the School of Public Health at Texas A&M. Why are some people not getting the COVID vaccination? How can we educate people about the vaccine? Can the government force us to get the vaccine? We talk about these topics and many others related to all things vaccine on this podcast!