This is Trevor Lavett and he's the sport performance program manager.
And Trevor has a degree in excercise physiology with a specialty in
biomechanics.
And he organizes much of the research that's going on here in this lab.
Now this is a really neat lab, Trevor.
You've got some great projects going on, and I see a treadmill back here.
What kind of work are you doing on this particular piece of equipment?
>> So our treadmill we use it for is mainly to have people run on it.
We do a majority of our running studies and tests for our running athletes.
Our athletes they have their limits that they can push it to, and
many times what we're testing for is a test called the VO2 max.
We push them to their max exertion.
And really test out their limits.
A VO2 marks test allows us, in a controlled lab setting,
to push an athlete to their limits while monitoring metabolism,
heart rate, oxygen consumption, levels of lactic acid, and
even their mental drive to push their body to the max exertion.
From the test,
we can then analyze the results to see how they can improve their performance and
change the type of training they are doing to help them prepare for their events.
We even have the same technology to measure the same results in
real race conditions with our portable metabolic device.
With this, we can compare it to the lab tests and
see how different the body reacts to different elements that it's exposed to.
Whether it be environmental with humidity, rain, temperature, and things like that,
to really test the athlete's performance.
In fact, one of the other tests that we have for performance is
our body composition that we can analyze the person's body and muscle.
Would you want to learn more about it right now?
>> That would be great.
Let's go take a look.
>> Let's go.