lawrence armstrong
Professor, The University of Connecticut
Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology with joint appointments in Department of Physiology and Neurobiology and Department of Nutritional Sciences.
Areas of Expertise: Exercise and Heat; Physiology - Environmental; Exercise and Nutrition; Heat Acclimatization; Exertional Heat Illnesses; Sport Drinks; Fluid-Electrolyte Balance.
Lawrence E. Armstrong, Ph.D., FACSM has been a professor at the Human Performance Laboratory, University of Connecticut since 1990. Prior to that time, he served as a Research Physiologist at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick MA for seven years. His research specialties include physiological responses to exercise, dietary intervention (i.e., glucose-electrolyte solutions, sport drinks, dietary sodium), heat illness, pharmacologic influences on thermoregulation, and acclimatization to heat as they apply to athletes and military personnel. Professor Armstrong's field studies have focused on fluid-electrolyte balance in tennis players (Miami, FL), effects of flavoring on fluid consumption by soldiers (Fort Benning, GA), and cooling of heatstroke patients after a summer road race (Falmouth, MA). He is author of Performing in Extreme Environments (Human Kinetics, 2000) and editor of the book Exertional Heat Illnesses (Human Kinetics, 2003). He has been a member and Chair of writing groups that produced Fluid Replacement position statements for the American College of Sports Medicine and the National Athletic Trainers Association. Professor Armstrong developed a widely-used urine color chart that can be used as a field-expedient technique to monitor hydration status.
