Masters endurance athletes needed for a research study

From: Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise

Researchers need highly active athletes (older than 60 years of age) for a study examining the relationship between physical activity and total number of calories expended each day (IRB #21-567).

This study will require one virtual meeting and two visits to the Human Integrative Physiology Laboratory at Virginia Tech, which will take approximately six hours. Participants must be free of cardiovascular, lung, metabolic, kidney disease or cancer with a stable body weight over the past year (±5 lb.) We are looking for endurance athletes who have completed in marathons, ultra-marathons, or Ironman triathlons in the past year, with sustained high levels of training for the past six months (average weekly mileage of 35 miles or more) and with no recent injuries or other reasons that have changed the training volume.

The study inlvolement includes: fasting blood samples, measurements of body fat, physical activity and fitness level, urine collection during 14 days after drinking isotope-stable water, wear an activity tracker for two weeks.

Participants will be entered in a drawing for $25 cash (Odds of being selected 1 in 5). For more information contact Aubrey Johnson at vtultrahipl@gmail.com