Thesis
Recent Thesis Topics
Below is a listing of selected thesis topics of past CEP students. One of the goals of the program is to conduct theses topics that are suitable for publication, as well as presentation at the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) or American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) annual meetings. Our experience is that students who have conducted, presented and published research are more competitive on the job market compared to students who do thesis projects that do not 'stand alone'.
University grants are available to help support the costs of conducting many research projects as well as to support travel to professional meetings to present their research.
- Exercise science knowledge base of youth coaches
- Physiological responses during hot yoga
- Physiological responses on the CURVE treadmill
- Effect of altitude on the relative duration-intensity relationship during cycle time trials
- Comparative effects of steady-state, interval and Tabata training
- Effect of stage duration on Talk Test responses
- The Talk Test as a continuous vs. categorical variable
- Effect of pace variations on the cost of running
- Enhanced prediction of VO2max during the 6-minute walk test
- Thermal challenges during Bikram yoga
- Training effects of altitude simulation masks
- Physiological responses during log rolling
- Effects of speech passage duration on Talk Test responses
- Temporal stability of pacing strategy: Effect of glycogen depletion
- Translation of Talk Test responses in cardiac patients
- Translation of Talk Test responses in sedentary individuals
- Physiological responses on the ElliptoGO
- Prediction of VO2max and VT from the Rockport test & terminal RPE