Best PhD programs relating to running science

This may be in your ball park...

Oops, they only offer Master's degrees. If you haven't yet taken your Master's you may want to consider it.

U Calgary has an excellent program. Walter Herzog used to do work with Adidas in shoe design and has mentored many PHD students. He is a friend, though we have not spoke in some time.

kinesiology.ucalgary.ca

Walter Herzog

University of Calgary

Link:kinesiology.ucalgary.ca/research/walte...

Max Paquette

Running biomechanics & influence of footwear/other interventions on injury prevention and performance improvement

memphis.edu

Max Paquette

Max Paquette, Assistant Professor

Link:www.memphis.edu/healthsciences/about/f...

Running biomechanics involved in injury

Joshua Bailey University of Idaho

Gait biomechanics of running

uidaho.edu

Joshua P. Bailey-EHHS-University of Idaho

University of Idaho, College of Education, Department of Movement Sciences, Moscow, Idaho, Joshua P. Bailey, exercise science and health.

Link:www.uidaho.edu/ed/mvsc/faculty/joshua-...

I spend so much time on biomch-l already, but thank you very much for this list! Specifying the professors is such a helpful thing.

Form that above list, Max Paquette is a really good up and coming researcher. He is Canadian, a former runner and has a lot to offer. I know of his work. Walter Herzog has over 600 publications, but I think he is around my age, which is 70 so his career is likely winding down. But if it is not, he has mentored so many good people. In the past my past college did work with him using force plate transducers to gauge ground impact forces during walking and running.

Running is a simple sport. If you have to get a PhD in it, then you are creating something fictional an unnecessary that others do not understand and, because they do not understand it, they think you are smart and give you a Diploma.

Most high school coaches are afraid to think for themselves unless they can reference that thought to some book. As a result, they train the hypothetical runner that tends-to-the-mean, a runner that does not really exist. Some new kid shows up for whom this sort of training seems to be better suited. That kid is instantly labeled as a huge talent. All the talent lost because of poorly thought out training programme, all those athletes are discarded. Running turns into something that it is about the coach not about the runner.

Just because you measure some arbitrary characteristic of movement then apply a statistical method to your data, does not make you worthy of a PhD. There are already too many conferred. All those "Educators" with PhD's in Education Management or PhD in Reading are nothing more than title whores.

This is certainly one of the dumbest posts on letsrun and that is saying something. The level of ignorance here is breathtaking.

You sound like someone who dropped out of a PhD program because you couldn’t hack it.

“Running science” is so small in its utility to the world, it’s primary purpose presumably being to study how one can be better at a sport about which very few people care anyway.

Just like those losers who cannot get a PhD degree in African American studies.

Exercise Physiology ~ encompasses everything physiological even supplements.

University of Auckland. Take Lyiard Studies. You can get through the program fairly quickly. Apparently, if you master the idea that you run a lot of steady distance and then taper a bit for your peak races, they grant you the degree.

Do you even know what the doctorate is in? It sure as hell is not "running science." It might be in biomechanics, or in kinesiology or in finite element analysis, and it sure as is not about making better runners in the sense you mean. So my assumption is that, clearly, you are ignorant of the discipline, embarrassingly so.

Here are 2 papers from my colleague. This is the kind of research that is done at the doctoral level, and it takes years to learn how to do this and then translate it into action that affects people. Or where do you think new developments in shoe technology comes from? The void? Every shoe you buy has had years of study done before it goes to market, so it is surely not true that "very few people care anyway" since no doubt you bought running shoes that help you run- developed in part by PhDs doing hard work. Jesus. Letsrun is filled with people who comment without any actual knowledge.

254. Herzog W, Symons B (2010) Reply: Microstructural damage of arterial tissue due to repeated tensile strains. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 33 (6):481-482.
255. Jordan M, Norris SR, Smith D, Herzog W (2010) Acute effects of whole-body vibration on peak isometric torque, muscle twitch torque and voluntary muscle activation of the knee extensors. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 20:535-540.

Running is not a science.

But let's assume for a moment that it was. Is it your intent to go to those places and heckle running science graduate students for wasting their best years pursuing such folly.

Ha ha ha hah, you sure know very little about me. I can’t care what you think but see that my comment triggered you.

Learn to read. I responded to OP who used “running science”. So keep shut unless spoken to. Or write three more paras; what do I care.

Ooh, what a slam! Another highschooler or college kid commenting and then making it ad hominem. Because of course. Who does not care what I think but felt compelled to comment anyway. Haha.

He has focused moreso on work with cyclists but biochemically it is still an interesting topic.

In general, if there is a topic you are interested in, use scholar.google.com to look up potential topics of interest and look at which university the relevant authors are faculty. As an academic, whenever looking up research or people of interest, this tends to be the most efficient way.

You seem too stupid to get what I told you.