The Human Performance laboratory provides a high-quality experience-based learning environment for physiology-related modules. Students work in small groups to get data on a range of physiological parameters at rest and during a variety of exercise protocols.

Equipment

The lab is equipped with:

• 6 Monark cycle ergometers
• 2 treadmill with incline-decline gradient
• a Medical technologies Lode cycle ergometer
• Monarch Wingate ergometer
• 2 Douglas bag apparatus systems with a Servomex gas analyser for expired gas analysis
• Polar Heart rate monitors
• hand grip dynamometers
• ECG machine
• peak flow devices for lung function analysis
• blood pressure monitors
• Nonin Onyx Digital Finger Pulse Oximeter

This provides equipment which allow us to perform Laboratory assessments