Performing in Extreme Environments

This text describes exercise physiology for the human organism both in health and illness, with chapters on neural control of movement, neuropathies of the nervous system, skeletal muscle structure and function, muscle plasticity, muscular diseases, the pulmonary system and its diseases, the cardiovascular system and its disease, pediatrics, and aging. As an introduction the initial chapters cover bioenergetics, nutrition, energy balance and metabolism. Cerny and Burton are exercise physiologists with the State U. of New York at Buffalo.

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Lawrence E. Armstrong, PhD, Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, is an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Human Performance Laboratory, at the University of Connecticut. He received the Provost's Award for Academic and Research Excellence (1994), the Aerospace Medical Society's Environmental Science Award (1986), and the National Strength and Conditioning Association's Presidential Award for contributions to the NSCA Journal in Environmental Physiology (1989 and 1994). Since 1982, he has written more than 60 research articles for scientific journals and nearly 50 articles for educational and consumer publications. He also has contributed chapters to numerous books and has coauthored numerous articles for government technical reports.

Armstrong likewise has ""hands-on"" experience relative to extreme environments. In addition to completing 14 marathons and climbing Mt. Washington three times, he has collected research data in the medical tent for the Boston Marathon and contributed to ACSM position stands on fluid replacement during exercise as well as on heat and cold illnesses contracted during distance running. He graduated cum laude as a scholar-athlete from University of Toledo in 1971 with a BEd in Biology and Comprehensive Science, earned a MEd from Toledo in 1976, and a PhD from Ball State University in 1983 as a student of David L. Costill. He is a past president with the New England Chapter of the ACSM and conducted numerous research studies as a physiologist at the Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, MA, from 1983 to 1990. Armstrong lives in Mansfield Center, Connecticut.

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