Strengthening the Practice of Exercise and Sport-Science Research
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Exercise and sport sciences continue to grow as a collective set of disciplines investigating a broad array of basic and applied research questions. Despite the progress, there is room for improvement. A number of problems pertaining to reliability and validity of research practices hinder advancement and the potential impact of the field. These problems include inadequate validation of surrogate outcomes, too few longitudinal and replication studies, limited reporting of null or trivial results, and insufficient scientific transparency. The purpose of this review is to discuss these problems as they pertain to exercise and sport sciences based on their treatment in other disciplines, namely psychology and medicine, and to propose a number of solutions and recommendations.
Halperin and Pyne are with the Physiology Discipline, Australian Inst of Sport, Canberra, ACT, Australia. Halperin is with the Centre for Exercise and Sport Science Research, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia. Vigotsky is with the Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Foster is with the Dept of Exercise and Sport Science, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, La Crosse, WI.
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