Sport and Exercise Physiology Testing Guidelines: Volume I - Sport Testing

Richard Davison is an internationally recognised exercise physiologist with 35+ years of academic and coaching experience, currently serving as a Visiting Professor of Exercise Physiology at the Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He is a Fellow and former President of the European College of Sport Sciences and a Fellow and former Chair and Honorary Treasurer of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. He has held editorial board positions at leading sport science journals, including the Journal of Sports Sciences, the Journal of Sport Medicine, and the Journal of Science and Cycling, and has contributed to the BASES Physiological Testing Guidelines since 1996. Richard spent 22 years as a Coach Educator with British Cycling, and his research and expertise have been applied to coaching riders to British and World Championship victories and podiums at the Commonwealth and Olympic Games.Arthur Henrique Bossi is a lecturer and applied researcher at Edinburgh Napier University, specialising in exercise physiology and endurance performance. His work centres on understanding individual responses to exercise training and translating that knowledge into personalised performance interventions. Before taking up his lectureship, Dr Bossi spent more than 12 years coaching cyclists at every level, from beginners to elite mountain bikers, and served as a consultant for the Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland. This breadth of experience, spanning both the laboratory and the field, has given him a deep understanding of the cyclist-bicycle interaction and the physiological determinants of endurance performance. In this book, he brings a practical, evidence-based perspective firmly grounded in the realities of competitive cycling.