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Ed Pistilli

Ed Pistilli

Professor of Exercise Physiology at West Virginia University School of Medicine and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, Health Professions

Aug 4, 2026

AlexHOST
9:28
What went in, and we need some kind of explanation about the modeling you did.
9:33
This really started out as an exercise to show the students in my lab that I could actually learn coding and, and modeling.
9:41
So this is a, a, you know, and a relatively newer, uh, type of, uh, research and the students in my lab are really good at it.
9:47
So Python and R and all these programs are second nature to them, and they weren't to me.
9:52
And what I started to do was just write code to generate different curves reflecting in my mind what would be the main parameter in weightlifters that could be affected, which is rate of force development.
10:04
So if we think about rate of force development simply meaning how fast we can activate our skeletal muscle mass to produce force, and weightlifters have very high rates of force development.
10:16
That would, that's what make them explosive and makes them, you know, good at their sport.
AlexHOST
12:28
So why you don't think it's linear? Why you think, uh, there's something e- else going on?

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