The closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have hit gyms hard. To reopen gyms after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, hygiene concepts were required to ensure that gyms identify the risks caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and minimize them with effective strategies. Here Prof. Dr. Henning… [read more]

Both endurance and strength training are effective and inexpensive interventions for diabetes patients to improve pathologically increased levels of blood glucose (hyperglycemia), health and fitness. However, our current knowledge of the biological mechanism underlying the improved glycaemia during… [read more]

Our PhD student Daniela Schranner published her first paper for her dissertation at the Chair of Exercise Biology. We know that exercise poses a major challenge for metabolism and that metabolites like lactate change significantly during physical activity. But next to lactate, there are roughly 1000… [read more]

Munich has emerged as a well-connected centre of muscle research that includes exercise physiologists, biomechanists, molecular biologists and clinicians. Our community meets regularly during the Munich Muscle Meetings that are organized in different venues across the city. We want to invite you to… [read more]

Our PhD student Daniela Schranner returned in December from her three-month research visit in the lab of Robert Gerszten at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. The research group at Harvard focusses on clinical biomarkers related to cardiovascular diseases and diabetes by measuring metabolites… [read more]