Annual Meeting session · 1 CEC

Methodological Advances Driven by the MoTrPAC Design

The Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC) was designed to map the molecular responses to exercise among over 1800 sedentary adults, children, and adolescents who were randomized to endurance training, resistance training, or non-exercise control. Several features of the…

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2026 ACSM Annual Meeting Session

What you will learn

  • Understand the research design of MoTrPAC and how gaps in existing research methods were addressed to meet various challenges
  • Identify and understand how different accelerometers (and placement on the body) can result in varying conclusions about levels of activity
  • Understand how taking repeated DXA and biospecimen samples from diverse sites can complicate analyses and illustrate techniques for analyzing these data for the different MoTrPAC studies

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