Glen Belfry, PhD

Assistant Professor

Room 4165, TH
519 661-2111 x88364
gbelfry@uwo.ca
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Education

  • PhD (Toronto)
  • MA (Western University)
  • BEd (Queens)
  • BA (Western University)

Graduate Program Supervision

  • Integrative Biosciences MSc | PhD

Research In Profile

The research professor Belfry's lab has focused on the acute and chronic responses of exercise on the biochemical and cardiorespiratory systems. Studies have looked at the physiological responses specific to the exercise paradigms including, weight lifting, swimming, rowing within the context of high-intensity and moderate-intensity training.

Featured Publications and Projects

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • Dirk, K L, Belfry G, and Matthew Heath. Exercise and executive function during follicular and luteal menstrual cycle phases. Medicine and science in sports and exercise 52.4 (2020): 919-927
    IF 5.4
  • Belfry GR, Paterson DH, Thomas SG. High-Intensity 10-s Work: 5-s Recovery Intermittent Training Improves Anaerobic and Aerobic Performances. Res Q Exerc Sport. 2020 Dec;91(4):640-651. doi: 10.1080/02701367.2019.1696928. Epub 2020
    IF 2.50
  • Grossman KJ, Lim DJ, Murias JM, Belfry GR. The Effect of Breathing Patterns Common to Competitive Swimming on Gas Exchange and Muscle Deoxygenation During Heavy-Intensity Fartlek Exercise. Front Physiol. 2021 Nov 24;12:723951. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2021.723951. eCollection 2022.IF 4.6
  • Matt Lee, Matthew Waddell and Glen Belfry. A four-week 30 s weight training intervention improves 2000 m rowing ergometer performance of provincial to national collegiate female rowers during their competitive season. Gazz Med Ital, Issue 10., 2022 Arch Sci Med-4734
    IF 0.13

Visit Google Scholar for a comprehensive list of publications.

Current Grants and Research Projects

  • A Comparison of Methods to Identify the Mean Response Time of Ramp-Incremental Exercise for Exercise Prescription
  • Menstrual phase differences in oxygen uptake, blood lactate concentration, ventilation, and muscle deoxygenation during incremental and severe intensity exercise
  • The Individual and Combined Physiological Responses of Apnea and High-intensity Exercise in Men and Women, Young and Old, and Trained and Untrained individuals.
  • The gas exchange response to multiple sets of a typical lower extremity weight training regime performed to concentric failure

Featured Graduate Student Projects

The Effect of Breathing Patterns Common to Competitive Swimming on Gas Exchange and Muscle Deoxygenation During Heavy-Intensity Fartlek Exercise.

  • Grossman, Kevin. 2022. MSc in Kinesiology.

The gas exchange response to multiple sets of a typical lower extremity weight training regime performed to concentric failure.

  • James Ramsey, PhD Candidate.

The Individual and Combined Physiological Responses of Apnea and High-intensity Exercise in Men and Women, Young and Old, and Trained and Untrained individuals.

  • Jeremy Walsh. PhD Candidate.

Visit Scholarship@Western for a list of completed student theses and dissertations in the repository.

Graduate Student Opportunities

Contact professor Belfry at gbelfry@uwo.ca for more infromation.

Additional Information

Academic Appointments and Research Affiliations

  • Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging
  • Canadian Sport Centre Ontario

Professional Activities

  • Faculty of Health Sciences, Exemplary Contribution to Teaching
  • Physiology Consultant, Western Regional Swimming Centre