This is the second blog post on fat and lean muscle mass ratios in college and professional football players.  The ...

Click below to read the blog post from Track/Football Consortium's Tony Holler

 

What Is the Female Athlete Triad?
As the name suggests, the female athlete triad consists of three medical conditions: 1 ...

We recently published a paper in the International Journal of Sports Medicine (Czeck et al., 2019B) on body composition measures ...

As part of our blog series on exploring body composition in college and professional football players, I want to look ...

This is the second blog on body composition in college and professional football players.  As I stated in the first ...

Is it lean soft tissue or fat-free mass? I get that question a lot when individuals are talking about ...

The interest in categorizing body type in athletes has a long history that goes back to the ancient Greeks. This ...

In a recent blog series, I compared percent total body fat in college and professional football players. I want to ...

We recently published a paper in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (Bosch et al., 2019) on body composition ...

David Epstein has a new book titled: Range: Why generalists triumph in a specialized world. I am sure many of ...

We recently published a paper in the International Journal of Sports Medicine (Czeck et al., 2019) on body composition measures ...

We recently published a paper in the International Journal of Sports Medicine (Dengel et al., 2019) that examined body composition ...

Reporting in sport has become a daily occurrence. Physical, technical, and tactical reports are shared and discussed every day to ...

On the second installment of my blog series “What Is This?” I wanted to look at something that you ...

A doctoral student in my laboratory is completing a study in females that have undergone anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery ...

Recently, I wrote a blog on solutions for scanning individuals that are too tall for some dual X-ray absorptiometer (DXA ...

After 30 years of using dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) to examine bone, muscle, and fat in clinical, as well as ...

In a recent blog, I discussed the amount of total daily carbohydrate intake for athletes.  Another important factor regarding carbohydrate ...

The 2019 NFL Combine just concluded and the athletes seem to be bigger, faster, and stronger than ever before. But ...

 

This blog reviews evidence-based recommendations for optimal carbohydrate intake for athletes

 

The Power of Carbohydrates 

Most athletes ...

Watch the interview with Dexalytics Co-founders Don Dengel and Tyler Bosch about Dexalytics and the 2019 NFL Scouting Combine.

 

Dexalytics Draws on the Power of Technology to Help Teams and Athletes Prepare for Success

 

Former Gopher football defensive ...

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"April Bockin lies motionless on the light blue table of the DXA scanner ...

Read the Article by Dexalytics Co-Founder, Don Dengel in the Pioneer Press

 

While many of us enjoy watching collegiate ...

For decades, the ‘gold standard‘ for measuring body composition was hydrostatic weighing.  However, today dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is considered ...

In a recent blog, I discussed the calculation of the total amount of protein intake for athletes.  Another important factor ...

This blog reviews evidence-based recommendations for optimal protein intake for athletes using body composition information.

The Power of Protein

Protein ...

This blog represents the first of a series that will highlight normative DXA data for a variety of populations. Our ...

Each athlete, no matter the sport, has a unique body type and composition. Understanding her/his distribution of mass, i ...

A 2003 book by Michael Lewis chronicled Billy Beane’s use of statistics to analyze professional baseball players’ data to help ...

This is part II of our blog series on how the integration of Dexalytics can help with your current workflow ...

As I look back over 30 years of DXA research, I am amazed at the wide range of shapes and ...

Many Dexalytics users know that adequate hydration will enhance athletic performance and have asked whether it is possible to calculate ...

Visceral adipose tissue or VAT is the intra-abdominal fat that is located inside the abdominal cavity and is packed between ...

When athletes, coaches, performance staff, and doctors have their first experience measuring body composition with dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), they ...

Each athlete has unique energy needs and determining calorie needs is important for optimal performance and body composition.  Athletes that ...

Dexalytics recently announced a couple of new features to help you determine energy needs. Over the next couple of blogs ...

One of the unique features of dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is its ability to provide accurate and reliable segment analysis ...

In a recent blog, I mentioned that Dexalytics can be used to track an athlete’s bone mineral density (BMD) and ...

Recently, I had the chance to attend the 2018 NFL Combine.  As part of the Combine, the Professional Football ...

As I mentioned in our initial blog, Dexalytics was initially developed with a focus on football.  However, Dexalytics is ...

Information and communication are critical pieces of athlete development. The sports medicine, nutrition, coaching and strength and conditioning staff all ...

Welcome to the first Dexalytics blog. Being the first blog entry, I think it is important to answer some basic ...