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Associate Professor Andrew Kilding
PhD (Sheffield), BSc (Teesside), PGCert Ed (Leeds Met)
Associate Professor, Sport & Exercise Science
Director, Sport Performance Centre
Sport and Exercise Science Team Leader

Phone: + 64 9 921 9999 ext 7056
andrew.kilding@aut.ac.nz

Sport Performance Research Institute New Zealand

Sports Performance Centre

Areas of Leadership and Responsibility
Director of the Sport Performance Centre (SPC)
Deputy Director of the Sport Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ)
Director of the Human Performance Laboratory
Sport and Exercise Science Team leader
Paper leader - Postgraduate Exercise Physiology

Teaching Areas
Sport and Exercise Physiology
Sport Science
Exercise Science

Areas of Research and Areas Supervised
Identification of airway hyper-responsiveness in elite athletes
Breathing pattern and respiratory muscle training and sport performance
Improving intermittent and aerobic fitness in team sport athletes
Enhancing performance of endurance athletes
Pulmonary oxygen uptake kinetics and endurance performance

Current Research Projects
Menstrual Dysfunction in female endurance athletes
Novel methods to enhance running economy in distance runners
Optimising ‘run off the bike’ ability in Triathlon
Effects of intermittent hypoxia on team sport performance
Effects of priming exercise on high-intensity performance
Effects of hyperoxic training on cycling performance
Respiratory muscle training and sports performance

Awards
Best poster presentation at conference (2008) - Sport and Exercise Science New Zealand
ISRRNZ, AUT - Senior research award 2005, 2006, 2008

Relevant Links
Physiology advisor - New Zealand Academy of Sport North Island (NZASNI)
Executive board member - Sport and Exercise Science New Zealand (SESNZ)
Practitioner status (Applied Exercise Physiology) – Sport and Exercise Science New Zealand (SESNZ)

Research Summary
My research interests are primarily focused on developing and assessing ways to enhance endurance (aerobic) performance – both in individual sports such as running, cycling and triathlon, but also in team sport athletes.

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

Bonetti D., Hopkins, W.G., Kilding, A.E (2009). Cycling performance following adaptation to two protocols of acutely intermittent hypoxia. International Journal of Sport Physiology and Performance, 4(1), 68-83.

Kilding, A.E. Wraith, E, Good, M., Smith, C., Gammon, C. (2009). Sweat rate and sweat composition in elite female soccer players. International Journal of Sports Medicine.

Turnbull, J. R., Kilding, A. E., & Keogh, J. W. L. (2009). Physiology of alpine skiing: a review. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 19(2), 146-155.

Kilding, A.E., Tunstall, H., and Kuzmic, D (2008). Suitability of FIFA’s “The 11” training programme for young football players - impact on physical performance. Journal of Sport Science and Medicine, 7, 320-326.

Kilding, A.E. and Jones, A.M. (2008). VO2 'overshoot' during moderate-intensity exercise in endurance-trained athletes: the influence of exercise modality. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology, 160(2),139-146.

Kilding, A.E., Winter, E.M., Fysh, M. (2007). Relationships between pulmonary oxygen uptake kinetics and other measure of aerobic fitness in middle- and long-distance runners. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 100, 105-114.

Kilding, A.E., Winter, E.M., Fysh, M. (2006). Moderate Domain Pulmonary Oxygen Uptake Kinetics and Endurance running Performance. Journal of Sports Sciences, 24(9), 1013-1022.

Bonetti D, Kilding AE, Hopkins WG (2006). High-intensity kayak performance following adaptation to intermittent hypoxia. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 1(3), 246-260.

Kilding, A.E., Aziz, A.R., Teh, K.C. (2006). Measuring and predicting maximal aerobic power in international-level intermittent sport athletes. Journal of Sport Medicine and Physical Fitness. Sep; 46(3):366-72.

Kilding, A.E. and Jones, A.M. (2005). Validity of a single-visit protocol to estimate the maximum lactate steady state. Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise, Vol. 37, No. 10, pp. 1734–1740.

Last updated: 03 Nov 2010 12:15pm

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