Purpose-built for both elite athletes and aspiring students, our six specialised lab rooms are equipped with highly advanced equipment—ranging from VO₂ max and lactate threshold assessments to environmental acclimation chambers, anti-gravity treadmills, and advanced isokinetic dynamometry.
At the heart of our centre is a passion for performance and wellbeing. We support a wide range of users: from professional sports teams and regional elite athletes, to schools, colleges, and community members seeking meaningful insights into health and fitness. Our expert team delivers comprehensive sport science testing services—measuring strength, power, body composition, and both anaerobic and aerobic capabilities.
Hands-on learning and real-world impact are central to our ethos. Students enjoy unrivalled access to our facilities, gaining valuable experience through practical classes, collaborative research, and regular clientele assessments.
Whether you’re striving for sporting excellence, pursuing personal wellbeing, or developing your knowledge in the field of sport and health, our laboratories offer an exceptional environment in which to realise your goals.
Our health checks are available to anyone who would like to find out more information regarding their physical health
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A lactate threshold assessment is commonly used to assess ability and support endurance training prescription in line with targeted training zones.
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VO2 max testing is commonly used in sports and fitness settings to assess cardiorespiratory fitness across all levels of ability
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An environmental chamber, also known as a climate chamber or environmental simulator, is used in sports science and performance research to simulate various environmental conditions.
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Using our sport centre facilities and specialist equipment we can offer tailored sport science testing for sport teams.
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The Sport and Health Science Lab we can offer bespoke workshops tailored for schools & colleges.
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Our Physiology Laboratory is registered by the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES), the professional body for sport and exercise sciences in the UK. You can read about the benefits of holding Registered Laboratory status on the CASES website.
CASES Laboratory Accreditation is a quality assurance process that provides clients with a means of confirming the quality of a laboratories facilities, equipment, procedures and staffing to conduct sport & exercise science. This is the only CASES Accredited Laboratory in the South West.
A CASES Accredited Laboratory meets the following criteria:
We are really proud to work in partnership with the following organisations:
Adam and Hannah are two of our previous students, take a look at their blogs to find out what it is like to study here:
Sport & Health Science Lab staff:
Chris Puleston (Sport & Health Science Lab Manager)
Meg Okey (Sport & Health Science Officer)