Dr Dawson Kidgell is a senior lecturer and the advanced research coordinator in the Department of Physiotherapy at Monash University. Dawson is an expert and leading researcher in the area of neurophysiology of exercise and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He specialises in the technique of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) which is a non-invasive method of measuring the functional properties (neuroplasticity) of the human brain, in particular the primary motor cortex.
In part 2 of our interview, Dawson gives us a summary of periodisation in exercise – manipulating the volume, intensity and frequency of training in order to control load volume.
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