The Clinical Exercise and Rehabilitation Research Cluster (CERC)

Our research

Reducing Health Inequalities

• Implementation of a Community-Based Mind-Body (Tae-Bo) Physical Activity Programme on Health-Related Physical Fitness in Rural Black Overweight and Obese Women with Manifest Risk Factors for Multimorbidity
• Hematologic responses following concurrent Taekwondo and resistance training in under-resourced communities
• Financial wellness and debt as a predictor of physical wellness and claims

A healthier life for everyone

• Associations between cardiorespiratory fitness, fatness, hemodynamic characteristics, and sedentary behaviour in primary school-aged children.
• Fitness Changes in Adolescent Girls Following In-School Combined Aerobic and Resistance Exercise: Interaction With Birthweight
• The triglyceride to high‐density lipoprotein ratio identifies children who may be at risk of developing cardiometabolic disease
• Genetics and exercise health in strength training
• Responsiveness to endurance training can be partly explained by the number of favourable single nucleotide polymorphisms an individual possesses
• Establishing a proof of concept for the effects of low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet (LCHFD) and physical activity on body composition in type 2 diabetes
• Immune Function Response Following a Low-carbohydrate, High-fat Diet (LCHFD) in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
• Concurrent low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet with/without physical activity does not improve glycaemic control in type 2 diabetics

Obesity prevention and treatment

• 'At risk' waist-to-height ratio cut-off points recently adopted by NICE and US Department of Defense will unfairly penalize shorter adults. What is the solution?
• Obese individuals do not underreport dietary intake to a greater extent than nonobese individuals when data are allometrically-scaled.
• The associations between physical activity intensity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease
• The Hypertriglyceridemic Waist, Waist-to-Height Ratio, and Cardiometabolic Risk
• Efficacy of Home-Based Callisthenic Resistance Training on Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Overweight Compared to Normal Weight Preadolescents
• Comparative effects of high-intensity versus moderate-intensity concurrent aerobic and resistance exercise training on obese females
• Effects of endurance and high intensity training on ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 levels and arterial pressure in obese and normal weight adolescents
• A novel treatment for sleep apnoea - taking back control for a better life (ongoing with grant funding)

Improving quality of life as we grow older

• Effects of high-intensity interval training on health-fitness, health related quality of life, and psychological measures in college-aged smokers
• Effects of aquatic therapy on balance in older adults
• German volume training for health promotion: Acute vasopressor, pulmonary and metabolic responses
• Effect of combined aquatic and cognitive training on quality of life, fall self-efficacy, and motor performance in aged with varying cognitive status