Lon Kilgore Ph.D.    
Teaching

Dr. Kilgore endeavors to provide evidence based teachings in anatomy, physiology, applications in biological adaptation, and practical  physical assessment, to students from a variety of majors who wish to become physical therapists, exercise clinicians, coaches, personal trainers, and researchers. Of particular interest is a concerted effort to restructure teaching and training of human movement seen in classrooms, clinics, and gyms across the USA away from the conventional isolationist approach towards a more science based, unified systems, and utilitarian approach.

Research

Markers of tissue damage as indicators of chronic over-exertion in exercise training - Exploration of physiological measures that indentify the precise stimulus(i) that induces adaptation in oxygen consumption capacity in the human - Chronic training effects on resting testosterone and cortisol levels and how changes influence human performance - Analysis of and the application of physical law and geometry to anatomical  systems during lifting movements to establish a scientific basis for "safe and effective" exercise technique - The role of Heat Shock Proteins (HSP70 family specifically) in muscular remodelling during hypertrophy, atrophy, and subsequent to  myocardial infarction - Explorations of the operational paradigm of modern "exercise science" to discern it's theoretical basis - Creation of a functional and measurable definition of fitness

 Current Laboratory Projects

Contact

If you have a question for me and you are not local, just e-mail me here, I try very hard to respond to every one of the hundred or so e-mails I get each day.  If you are posing a question needing a long response, it may take a bit of time to get your response.  I'm notoriously difficult to get on the phone since my work days are split between classrooms, laboratorys (teaching and research), weightrooms, meetings, my drawing studio, my writing garrett, the library, and more. I do have about 10 hours per week of  "office hours". This time is set aside specifically to personally meet with anyone  who shows up at my office door to discuss class materials, science, sport theory, academic advising or pretty much any topic of interest to the visitor.

 

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