A University of Aberdeen sports scientist has collaborated on a book which has been given top ratings by experts in its field.
Dr Henning Wackerhage joined forces with Professor Neil Spurway at the University of Glasgow on Genetics and Molecular Biology of Muscle Adaptation.
The book was reviewed in The Sport and Exercise Scientist - the official publication of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences - and given 10 out of 10 points.
The book starts with the origins of life and ends with the mechanisms that make muscles adapt to different forms of training. Elsewhere the authors explore how training and nutrition are not enough to create Olympic champions and that the right genes are crucial too. Other chapters look at what happens to muscles during exercise.
Dr Wackerhage said: "The book is written for final year and postgraduate students and lecturers in sports related subjects. It is also suitable for biochemists and physiologists for which it may open a way into the sports and exercise field."
Dr Wackerhage is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Exercise Physiology and is part of the Applied Human Physiology Group at the University of Aberdeen. He is Programme Co-ordinator for the MSC in Molecular Exercise Physiology: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sms/postgraduate/molecular-exercise-physiology.shtml
Dr Wackerhage also teaches a BSc in Sports and Exercise Science http://www.abdn.ac.uk/prospectus/ugrad/study/subject.php?code=sports_exercise&prog=science and a BSc in Sports Studies (Sport and Society) (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/prospectus/ugrad/study/subject.php?code=sports_studies&prog=science.
His research is about the mechanisms that make muscle adapt to exercise and he is member of the Bone Group at the University of Aberdeen.