AUT - Our People
- ArionWhere applying and enrolled students can access AUT course information, check your enrolment status, make fee payments, update your personal details and view your academic results.
- AUTOnlineOnline access to course resources and learning activities through AUT's central learning management system.
- UnicentralUniCentral is the AUT University Student Portal. Here you will find useful information about you as a student and quicklinks to all the important online systems you will need to use while studying at AUT University.
Centre Banner
Main Content
Our People
Professor Paul Laursen
PhD (Queensland), MSc, BHK (UBC, Canada)
Performance Physiologist / Adjunct Professor
Phone: +64 9 477 5427
paulL@nzasni.org.nz
Sport Performance Research Institute New Zealand
Physical Address
North Shore Campus / Millennium Institute of Sport and Health
Areas of Leadership and Responsibility
Researcher at The Sport Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ)
Areas of Research and Areas Supervised
Thermoregulation, precooling, and hydration
Pacing, fatigue and recovery from exercise
Training program optimization for endurance athletes
Cycling, running, and triathlon performance
Current Research Projects
Practical precooling for major event performance
Optimising running in triathletes
Guiding endurance training with heart rate variability
Research Summary
Paul Laursen is employed as the Performance Physiologist for the New Zealand Academy of Sport (North Island) where he oversees physiological support for the national sporting organisations of New Zealand. He supervises a number of postgraduate students directly involved with these organisations, and these projects aim to solve coach-driven research questions. He has published over 80 refereed manuscripts in moderate-to-high impact exercise and sports science journals, and this work has been cited more than 700 times.
Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles (a selection only)
- Laursen PB. (2010). Training for intense exercise performance: high-intensity or high-volume training? Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 20 Suppl 2:1-10.
- Quod MJ, Martin DT, Martin JC, Laursen PB. (2010). The power profile predicts road cycling MMP. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 31(6), 397-401.
- Buchheit M, Chivot A, Parouty J, Mercier D, Al Haddad H, Laursen PB, Ahmaidi S. (2010). Monitoring endurance running performance using cardiac parasympathetic function. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 108(6):1153-67.
- Laursen PB, Watson G, Abbiss CR, Wall BA, Nosaka K. (2009). Hyperthermic fatigue precedes a rapid reduction in serum sodium in an ironman triathlete: a case report. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 4(4),533-7.
- Siegel R, Maté J, Brearley MB, Watson G, Nosaka K, Laursen PB. (2009). Ice Slurry Ingestion Increases Core Temperature Capacity and Running Time in the Heat. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 42(4), 717-725.
- Quod, M.J., D.T. Martin, P.B. Laursen, A.S. Gardner, S.L. Halson, F.E. Marino, M.P. Tate, D.E. Mainwaring, C.J. Gore and A.G. Hahn. (2008). Practical precooling: Effect on cycling time trial performance in warm conditions. Journal of Sports Science, 23:1-11.
- Abbiss, C.R., J.J. Peiffer, J.M. Peake, K. Nosaka, K. Suzuki, D.T. Martin, and P.B. Laursen. (2008). Effect of carbohydrate ingestion and ambient temperature on muscle fatigue development in endurance-trained male cyclists. Journal of Applied Physiology,104(4), 1021-8.
- Abbiss, C.R. and P.B. Laursen. (2008). Describing and understanding pacing strategies during athletic competition. Sports Medicine, 38(3), 239-252.
- Bentley, D.J., G.R. Cox, D Green, and P.B. Laursen. (2008). Maximising performance in triathlon: Applied physiological and nutritional aspects of elite and non-elite competitions. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 11(4), 407-16.
- Quod, M.J., D.T. Martin, and P.B. Laursen. (2006). Cooling athletes before competition in the heat: comparison of techniques and practical considerations. Sports Medicine, 36(8), 671-82.
- Abbiss, C.R., and P.B. Laursen. (2005). Models to explain fatigue during prolonged endurance cycling. Sports Medicine, 35 (10), 865-898.
- Laursen, P.B., and D.G. Jenkins. (2002). The scientific basis for high-intensity interval training: optimising training programs and maximising performance in highly trained endurance athletes. Sports Medicine, 32:53-73.
Last updated: 04 Nov 2010 4:15pm