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.
Intensive endurance exercise can increase aerosol particle emission by over 100-fold, and there is evidence that SARS-CoV-2 has spread during indoor group exercise. However, data on aerosol particle emission during resistance exercise (i.e., weightlifting) and for “real-life” endurance or resistance…
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Patients with critical illness and typically treated in intensive care units (ICU). During a stay on the ICU, patients lose a large amount of muscle mass and patients struggle to recover from this loss. The Exercise Biologists Tobias Märkl and Prof Dr Henning Wackerhage have collaborated with ICU…
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It was overwhelming, 418 persons from all over the world participated at the Munich Endurance Symposium on 24th of November. They listened to interesting talks of Stephen Seiler, Veronique Billat, Henning Wackerhage and Sebastian Weber. Steven Seiler started the symposium by discussing the…
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The success of an academic career is dependent upon research accomplishments. The single most important factor for the success of a researcher on the academic job market is the scientific output, i.e., published papers, accompanied by other factors such as networking and participating in science…
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Bei Krafttraining denken viele nur an Sixpacks oder Muckibude. Aber Muskelaufbau ist nicht nur was für Bodybuilder. Zudem ist Krafttraining für uns alle geeignet, von Kindern bis zu hochbetagten Senioren. Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO empfiehlt es sogar ausdrücklich. Wie das aussehen kann, das…
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