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Copyright ©2008 Jason Karp.  All rights reserved.

                            

"Do not stop to think about the reasons for what you are doing, about why you are questioning.  Curiosity has its own reason for existence.  One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.  It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.  Never lose a holy curiosity."
                                                                                        - Albert Einstein

  

 

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It was not long after participating in my first track meet in junior high that I became interested in human motion.  There was something exciting about running faster than the guy in the lane next to you, something intriguing about how to do it.  Sport, after all, is engaging.  I slowly become interested in the “science” of sports and exercise, in a crude sort of way.  After all, as a teenager, it was not as if I was studying lactate threshold or running kinematics.  This romantic notion of how the human body’s performance may be improved by perfecting its physiology has led me to places I probably never would have been to otherwise, including a small, rural, college town in Pennsylvania named State College, an Olympic city in Canada, a railroad and limestone town in Indiana, and the high desert of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

 

My research interests include:

Entrainment of Breathing to Locomotion in Highly-Trained Distance Runners

My doctoral dissertation examined the entrainment (coordination) of 

the breathing rhythm to stride rate in highly-trained distance runners while running at different percentages of their ventilatory thresholds. 

 

Training Characteristics of U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials 

Qualifiers
 

My recent research examined the training characteristics of the 2004 

U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifiers, with comparisons between 

men and women and elite and national-class athletes.  This research 

was recognized by the local media in Bloomington, Indiana’s Herald-

Times newspaper (8/22/04), and was presented at the American 

College of Sports Medicine conference in June, 2005 and the American Society of Exercise Physiologists conference in March, 2006.  Click 

here for a press release of the study’s results.  To download the full 

scientific article, Training Characteristics of Qualifiers for the U.S. 

Olympic Marathon Trials, published in International Journal of 

Sports Physiology and Performance, click here.

 

Chocolate Milk as a Post-Exercise Recovery Aid
 

Other recent research compared the ingestion of chocolate milk to 

a fluid replacement drink (Gatorade) and a carbohydrate replacement drink (Endurox) between workouts on endurance cycling performance, and was presented at the American College of Sports Medicine conference in June, 2004.  For a press release on the study, click 

here. To download the full scientific article, Chocolate Milk as a Post-Exercise Recovery Aid, published in International Journal of 

Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, click here.  Owing to 

the popular interest in chocolate milk, this research has also been recognized by the media:

 

Newspapers:

Herald-Times (Bloomington, IN, 8/1/04 & 12/16/04)         

Chicago Tribune (10/31/04)                                                       

Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY, 11/25/04)                                    

Indiana Daily Student (Indiana University, 12/7/04)         

The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN, 12/14/04)                                        

The Cardinal Tales (Redwood Valley (MN) High School, 12/17/04)

Times Record News (Wichita Falls, TX, 12/18/04) 

The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA, 12/19/04)

The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY, 12/26/04)

Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (12/26/04)

FSView (Florida State University, 1/5/05)

Contra Costa Times (Contra Costa, CA, 1/6/05)

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (10/5/05)

 

Magazines:

Runner’s World (10/04)

Men’s Fitness (10/04)

Midwest Running (1/05)

 

Television:

WRTV Channel 6 (Indianapolis, 7/04)

NBC4-TV (Indianapolis, 7/04)

KCRA-TV (Sacramento, 7/04)

KOMOTV (Seattle, 9/22/05)

 

Radio:

COX Radio (Louisville, KY)

 

Internet:

Medscape.com

Earthlink

Macleans.ca

FitnessMagazine.com

WebMD

RollerNews.com

Coaching Science Abstracts

AMonline.com

About.com

milkdelivers.org

Whymilk.com

 

Other Organizations:

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Apria Healthcare

Florida Dairy Industry

 


   


 

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