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Overview

Carl Foster is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on orthopedics and sports medicine. Foster's work encompasses various subfields including complementary and alternative medicine, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, biomedical engineering, and physiology.

The main topics covered in Foster's research include sports performance and training, cardiovascular and exercise physiology, sports injuries and prevention, heart rate variability and autonomic control, cardiovascular effects of exercise, genetics and physical performance, as well as muscle activation and electromyography studies.

Foster's frequent collaborators reflect an active engagement in research networks, with prominent co-authors including Cristina Cortis, Andrea Fusco, Jos J. de Koning, Daniel Boullosa, and John P. Porcari.

The scientist has published extensively in several key academic venues, notably:

  • International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance (25 publications)
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (12 publications)
  • Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology (12 publications)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (7 publications)
  • Sports Medicine (4 publications)

Among their recent publications are:

  • "25 Years of Session Rating of Perceived Exertion: Historical Perspective and Development" (2021), published in International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance
  • "Training During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices of 12,526 Athletes from 142 Countries and Six Continents" (2021), published in Sports Medicine
  • "Training Periodization, Methods, Intensity Distribution, and Volume in Highly Trained and Elite Distance Runners: A Systematic Review" (2022), published in International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance
  • "Time-of-Day Effects on Short-Duration Maximal Exercise Performance" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "An Examination and Critique of Subjective Methods to Determine Exercise Intensity: The Talk Test, Feeling Scale, and Rating of Perceived Exertion" (2022), published in Sports Medicine

Best Publications

  • A new approach to monitoring exercise training.

    Carl Foster;Jessica A. Florhaug;Jodi Franklin;Lori Gottschall

  • Monitoring training in athletes with reference to overtraining syndrome.

    Carl Foster

  • Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the overtraining syndrome: joint consensus statement of the European College of Sport Science and the American College of Sports Medicine.

    Romain Meeusen;Martine Duclos;Carl Foster;Andrew Fry

  • Monitoring exercise intensity during resistance training using the session RPE scale.

    Meghan L. Day;Michael R. McGuigan;Glenn A. Brice;Carl Foster

  • Guidelines to classify subject groups in sport-science research.

    Kevin De Pauw;Bart Roelands;Stephen S. Cheung;Bas de Geus

  • Overtraining in endurance athletes: a brief review.

    Manfred Lehmann;Carl Foster;Joseph Keul

  • The role of information processing between the brain and peripheral physiological systems in pacing and perception of effort.

    Alan Clair St Gibson;Estelle V. Lambert;Laurie H. G. Rauch;Ross Tucker

  • Physiological Assessment of Human Fitness

    Peter J. Maud;Carl Foster

  • Effect of warm-up on cycle time trial performance.

    Amanda Hajoglou;Carl Foster;Jos J De Koning;Alejandro Lucia

  • Effects of specific versus cross-training on running performance

    Carl Foster;Lisa L. Hector;Ralph Welsh;Mathew Schrager

  • Potential for strength and endurance training to amplify endurance performance.

    R. C. Hickson;B. A. Dvorak;E. M. Gorostiaga;T. T. Kurowski

  • Athletic performance in relation to training load.

    C Foster;E Daines;L Hector;A C Snyder

  • Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the overtraining syndrome: Joint consensus statement of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)

    Romain Meeusen;Martine Duclos;Carl Foster;Andrew Fry

  • Recommendations for Cardiovascular Screening, Staffing, and Emergency Policies at Health/Fitness Facilities

    Gary J. Balady;Bernard Chaitman;David Driscoll;Carl Foster

  • How do endurance runners actually train? Relationship with competition performance.

    Jonathan Esteve-Lanao;Alejandro F. San Juan;Conrad P. Earnest;Carl Foster

  • Impact of training intensity distribution on performance in endurance athletes.

    Jonathan Esteve-Lanao;Carl Foster;Stephen Seiler;Alejandro Lucia

  • Effects of preexercise feedings on endurance performance.

    C Foster;D L Costill;W J Fink

  • Autonomic imbalance hypothesis and overtraining syndrome.

    Manfred Lehmann;Carl Foster;Hans-Hermann Dickhuth;Uwe Gastmann

  • Quantitation of resistance training using the session rating of perceived exertion method.

    Travis W. Sweet;Carl Foster;Michael R. McGuigan;Glenn A. Brice

  • Twenty-year follow-up of aerobic power and body composition of older track athletes

    Michael L. Pollock;Larry J. Mengelkoch;James E. Graves;David T. Lowenthal

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael L. Pollock
Michael L. Pollock University of Florida
Alejandro Lucia
Alejandro Lucia European University of Madrid
Romain Meeusen
Romain Meeusen Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Conrad P. Earnest
Conrad P. Earnest Texas A&M University
David B. Pyne
David B. Pyne University of Canberra
Antoni L. Andreu
Antoni L. Andreu Autonomous University of Barcelona
Ulf de Faire
Ulf de Faire Karolinska Institute
Warren D. Johnson
Warren D. Johnson Cornell University
David Tod
David Tod Lancaster University

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