The Human Performance Lab (HPL) is located in Cushing Coliseum within the Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies. Home of the Exercise Science program, the HPL is approximately 5,000 sq ft which includes 4 faculty offices, a private exercise facility, state-of-the-art equipment for body composition analysis, aerobic fitness, metabolism, physical activity, strength and much, much more. 

The HPL is used for laboratory sections of exercise sciences courses, research and service.

  

      

      

 

Greater Nebraska Physical Activity Initiative

 

 

The Greater Nebraska Physical Activity Initiative is a coordinated initiative to provide public health resources to promote physical activity in greater Nebraska which would allow for research studies that tie physical activity to health, academic performance, parental activity and psychological health.

 

 

The primary aim of the initiative is to develop an expert resource center for Greater Nebraska partners to access information related to physical activity programming. The Greater Nebraska Physical Activity Initiative will address the obesity epidemic which ties to cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and hypertension by targeting sedentary and irregularly active people across the lifespan. Still in development, we anticipate providing resources to local health departments and active community interest groups, schools and worksites to increase physical activity and nutrition knowledge among participating community children, worksites and seniors.