HPL

KINGSVILLE, TX (November 13, 2009): The Department of Health & Kinesiology has announced their 2009 Undergraduate Majors of the Year: Dyana Bullinger in Exercise Science and Rikki Sheffield in EC-12 PE. Congrtulations Dyana and Rikki!

Human Performance

Laboratory (HPL)

For those students interested in the exercise sciences or the testing, measurement,

and evaluation of human performance variables, the Department of Health & Kinesiology’s

Human Performance Laboratory (HPL), located in the Health & Recreation Building,

houses equipment that students may use during their data collection.

Specialized equipment housed in the HPL includes:

Ergometers: Treadmills (Laboratory Grade and Industry Grade), Stationary Cycles (Pendulum

and Basket Drop), High-Load Stationary Cycle with Computer Interface (for Anaerobic Power

Testing), Arm Crank, Jackson Isometric Device (Load Cell), Hand Grip Dynamometers

Range of Motion/Muscular Flexibility: Sit-and-Reach Boxes (Standard and Modified), Total

Body Rotation Devices, Shoulder Body Rotation Devices, Goniometers, Flexiometers

Body Composition: Skinfold Calipers (Lange), Anthropometers, Anthropometric Measuring

Tape, Bioelectric Impedance Analyzer (Multi-frequency), Hydrostatic Chamber, Whole Body

Plethysmograph (Bod Pod) Physician’s Platform Scales, Stadiometers

Metabolic/Pulmonary: Metabolic Cart, Dry (Bellows) Spirometer, Peak Expiratory Flow Meters,

Scholander Chemical Gas Analyzers

Cardiovascular: Sphygomanometers (Aneroid and Mercury Column), Electrocardiograph (EKG),

Stethoscopes (Single and Dual), Heart-Rate Monitors

Blood: The HPL is currently equipped to measure the following blood variables: lactate, cholesterol,

LDL, HDL, triglycerides, ketones, glucose, and creatinine.

Environmental: The HPL is currently equipped to measure barometric pressure, ambient air

temperature, globe temperature, and wet bulb globe temperature in-house and in the field.

Other: Curl-Up Templates (form abdominal endurance), Stopwatches, Metronomes