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NSPF Awards largest-ever grant.(National Swimming Pool Foundation)
The National Swimming Pool Foundation awarded its largest grant ever to Drs. Bruce Becker and Susan Dunlap at Washington State University for a study regarding the impact of water exercise on respiratory function, the group officially announced at the World Aquatic Health Conference in September.
Becker's research team will compare health benefits of aquatic exercise vs. land-based programs of similar intensity and duration. The findings will cover a range of age groups and may have implications for healthy individuals and sufferers of respiratory illness, according to Becker.
"Literature supports that cardiovascular conditioning can occur and that aerobic endurance improves," he said. "But no studies exist that show a rate of change or currently demonstrate the effect of aquatic exercise on the respiratory system."
Thomas Lachocki, CEO of NSPF in Colorado Springs, Colo., said such research is key to promoting aquatics.
Roughly half of the $247,000 grant also will go toward creation of an aquatic research laboratory at WSU in Pullman, Wash. Lachocki said much of NSPF's intention in awarding such a ...
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