Health Promotion
and Exercise Lab
Located in room 279A
Forker
Building,
coordinated by Dr. Greg Welk. The lab is equipped with a variety of
accelerometry-based physical activity monitors including MTI Actigraph (n =
30), BiotrainerPro (n = 90), Sensewear Pro armband (n=10), Actical (n=10), and
an IDEEA monitor (n = 1). Other equipment include a Monark exercise equipment,
bioelectric impedance analyzers and skinfold calipers for body composition
assessment. A variety of health promotion software applications are also housed
in the lab and used for different applications (research, teaching and
service). The equipment is run on a network of computers to facilitate data
processing and analyses. The computers included SPSS, SAS and MedCalc for
statistical analyses and Reference Manager 10.0 software for management of
scientific references. Dr. Welk’s main area of research is on the assessment
and promotion of physical activity in both children and adults. Additional
information on Dr. Welk’s research and the Health Promotion and Exercise Lab
are available on Dr. Greg Welk’s web page (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gwelk/).
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