The Human Performance Laboratory

The Human Performance Laboratory is our largest teaching and research facility.  It was built as part the University’s £30m investment in the new Sports and Wellbeing Park at Maiden Castle.  The laboratory serves as our primary practical teaching hub for undergraduate and postgraduate modules as well as supporting research at undergraduate, postgraduate and faculty levels.    

Within the Human Performance Laboratory, a variety of distinct aspects of human performance are tested, with an emphasis on the analysis of physiological and metabolic responses to exercise and nutrition in health and disease.  This includes but is not limited to gas exchange and cardiopulmonary exercise testing, measures of lung function, the metabolic analysis of blood and urine, cardiovascular analysis, analysis of muscle structure and function, anthropometry, and body composition analysis.