Current Students and Staff

Resistance trained and untrained participants needed for research investigating

Dear Loughborough Student/Staff Member,

I’d like to kindly invite you to take part in an exciting Research Study we are currently conducting (Study Reference Number: 21355)

We require participants to compare differences in central nervous system characteristics of individuals with and without prior upper and lower body resistance training experience.

Study participation - what's involved

The total time commitment for participants is estimated to be approximately 4 hours for participants, split across the following tasks:

1. Familiarisation: ~1 h
2. Test session visit 1 (lower body): ~1.5 h
3. Test session visit 2 (upper body): ~1.5 h

Eligibility criteria:

• Men and women
  
• Between 18-40 years of age
  
• Healthy (with no injury or any underlying disease)
  
• Resistance-trained group: >2 years of regular resistance training experience
  
• Recreationally active group: Active but no systematic training of any kind
  
• No history of epilepsy or seizure
  
• Not pregnant
  
• Not taking any medication
  
• Non-smoker
  
• BMI < 30kg/m2

If you are interested in taking part, please contact the lead investigator Danyang Wei (Doctoral Researcher) via email (D.Wei@lboro.ac.uk).

We look forward to hearing from you!

Many thanks!