Welcome at the Associate Professorship of Exercise Biology!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
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Our strategy: Many athletic performances are critically dependent on metabolic function, and physical training is effective in preventing and treating metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and obesity. The Exercise Biology group at the TU Munich therefore aims to investigate topics related to sports and metabolism often with disease relevance. We often use state-of-the-art methods of metabolic research such as arteriovenous metabolomics analyses and metabolic flux analyses as well as methods of molecular sports physiology. Our main goal with this strategy is to mechanistically answer important unanswered questions in the field. We want to discover new phenomena that help athletes optimize their performance, help patients recover, and ultimately help all people who want to stay fit and healthy for a long time.
The aim of this study was to compare the measured physiological factors that limit running performance with real marathon results from world-class distance runners, evaluating the compatibility between measured data and predicted results based on the previously suggested model. Four world-class East…
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1 March 2025 marked the start of the DFG-funded HyperMet research group (2 x 4 years), which is headed by Henning Wackerhage (TUM Sports Biology) and Hanna Taipaleenmäki (LMU). On 1 March, Silke Jost also started as HyperMet Science Manager and Moritz Eggelbusch as HyperMet Postdoc in Sports…
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Exercise training improves our performance, fitness, and overall health. It is not just a powerful tool for prevention but also an effective treatment for many illnesses. There are several connections between metabolism, exercise and skeletal muscle, the key exercise organ. For example, during…
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On February 19, 2025, the Professorship for Exercise, Nutrition and Health will host a scientific symposium focusing on the effects of weight loss on skeletal muscle. The spotlight will be on GLP-1 receptor agonists (e.g., Wegovy, Ozempic), which have revolutionized obesity treatment but can also…
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Ice bathing is associated positive health effects. For this reason, our PhD student Alexander Braunsperger investigated the effects of ice bathing as part of our SFB-project ExBAT.
Time-of-day effects on metabolism have mainly been studied in relation to meals and exercise. So far, no studies have…
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