Billy Sperlich

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Billy Sperlich (* 1977 in Owensboro ) is a German - American sports scientist .

Life

Sperlich was born to an American mother and a German father in Owensboro (US state Kentucky ) and grew up near Rottweil in the German state Baden-Württemberg  . He did a triathlon and completed a degree in sports science at the German Sport University Cologne (DSHS), which he graduated in 2002. He then worked as a research assistant at various institutes of the DSHS and submitted his doctoral thesis in 2007. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Training Science and Sports Informatics at the Sports University as well as a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor at the Mittuniversitetetin Östersund, Sweden . In 2011 he took up a junior professorship at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , followed by a substitute professorship for sports methodology at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . In 2013, Sperlich launched the website www.sportsandscience.de , which, according to its own statements, sees itself as “an initiative for a quick and understandable transfer of evidence-based knowledge into sports practice”.

In October 2013, Sperlich switched to a professorship for sports science at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , where he took over the management of the “Integrative and Experimental Training Science ” department.

Sperlich's main research interests include exercise and sport in everyday life, training methodology, including forms of high-intensity training and aspects of endurance performance

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "We have forgotten how to move" . In: mainpost.de . March 17, 2017 ( mainpost.de [accessed November 13, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Help the training on the jumps. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Billy Sperlich. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ sportsandscience.de - The project . In: sportsandscience.de . ( sportsandscience.de [accessed on November 13, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Main idea | sportsandscience.de . In: sportsandscience.de . ( sportsandscience.de [accessed on November 13, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Summary: Endurance training: endurance method versus intensive interval method. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Summary: High Intensity Training (HIT). Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Summary: HIT - currently THE method in soccer fitness training! Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Summary: respiratory muscle training and endurance performance. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Summary: Endurance performance: results of "momentum" in an international comparison. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sparse, Billy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American sports scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Owensboro