An undergraduate laboratory to study exercise thresholds

• DOI: 10.1152/advan.00055.2023
• Publication Date: 2023-06-29T13:33:29Z
• Authors: Serena Trang; Felipe Mattioni M...; Juan M. Murias; Michael R. Herbert; Daniel A. Keir
• Keywords: Oxygen Consumption; Pulmonary Gas Exchange; 4. Education; Exercise Test; Humans; Learning; Carbon Dioxide; Students; Exercise

We present a laboratory to study exercise thresholds from gas exchange and ventilatory measures that features the “Exercise Thresholds App,” a free online resource that eliminates postprocessing of data and provides a bank of profiles on which end-users can practice threshold identification skills. In addition to including prelaboratory and postlaboratory recommendations, we present student accounts of understanding, engagement, and satisfaction and introduce a new quiz feature of the app to assist instructors with evaluating learning.