Equipment information and user guides

• Rosscraft Centurian anthropometric kit, Rosscraft Innovations Inc., Canada.
  • Website: Rosscraft
• Holtain skinfold caliper, Holtain Ltd., Crymych, UK.
  • Website: Holtain
• Omron Body Fat Monitor BF306, Omron Healthcare Europe B.V., The Netherlands.
• Harpenden Skinfold Caliper, Baty International, Burgess Hill, England.
• Harpenden anthropometric tape, Holtain LTD, Hoechstmass, West Germany.

• Omron Body Fat Monitor (hand to hand BIA) BF 306, Omron Medizintechnik, Mannheim, Germany.
• Bodystat 1500 Sports BIA, Bodystat, Douglas, Isle of Man, UK
• Bodystat Quadscan 4000, Bodystat, Douglas, Isle of Man, UK
  • Website: Bodystat
• Tanita BIA BF-350 body composition analyser (foot to foot), Tanita UK Ltd., Middlesex, UK.
  • Website: Tanita
• Tanita BIA UM-076 body composition analyser (foot to foot), Tanita UK Ltd., Middlesex, UK.

• Force plate (AMTI, Advanced Mechanical Technology, Inc., Massachusetts, USA).
  • Same applies to software for data collection (AMTINetForce) and data conversion (BioAnalysis).
  • User guide: AMTI Force Plate User Guide (.pdf)
• USB Pressure plate (Footscan entry level USB2 platform, RsScan International NV, Belgium).
  • User guide: Footscan 7 USB2 gait User Guide (.pdf)
• CODA (Codamotion CX1 unit, Charnwood Dynamics Ltd., Leicestershire, UK)
  • User guide: Codamotion User Guide (.pdf)

Cameras

• GoPro Hero 3+ silver (GoPro, Inc., California, USA).
• Sony SLT-α65V (Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan).

• Bone ultrasonometer, GE Achilles InSight, GE Healthcare, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, UK

• Reflotron Plus, Roche Diagnostics, Burgess Hill, UK
• Biosen C-Line, EKF Diagnostics, Barleben, Germany
• Micro-haematocrit centrifuge, (Analax Instruments, Hawksley & Sons, England)
• Micro-haematocrit tube reader (Hawksley & Sons, England)
• YSI 2500 Lactate Analyser, YSI, UK.
• Spectrophotometer (Jenway 6310 spectrophotometer, Bibby Scientific, England)
• B-Haemoglobin photometer (Hemocue Ltd, Angelholm, Sweden)

• Dinamap Pro 100V2, GE Medical Systems Information Technologies 2002, Tampa, Florida, USA.
• Accoson, Blood Pressure Cuff, England.
• Omron M6 Comfort digital Blood Pressure Monitor, Omron Healthcare Co. Ltd, Kyoto, Japan.
• Digital Blood Pressure Monitor, Model UA-767PC, A and D Medical Co., LTD, Saitama, Japan.

• Jenway 6310 Spectrophotometer, Barloworld Scientific Ltd, Dunmow, Essex, UK.
• Jenway Heated Cell Block Controller, Bibby Scientific, Dunmow, Essex, UK.
• Jencons - PLS Mixer, VX100, East Sussex, UK.
• Heraeus Pico 17 Centrifuge, Thermo Scientific, Germany.
• CK-NAC Assay Kit, Randox Laboratorites Limited, Crumlin, County Antrim, UK.

User guide

Creatine Kinase Assay (.pdf)

• Lode Corival cpet, Lode BV, Groningen, The Netherlands.
  • Website: Lode
• Lode Excalibur Sport V2 electrically-braked cycle ergometer, Lode BV, Groningen, The Netherlands.
  • Website: Lode
• Monark 827e friction-braked cycle ergometer, Monark Exercise AB, Vansbro, Sweden.
  • Website: Monark
• Monark Ergomedic 894 E Peak Bike friction braked ergometer, Monark Exercise AB, Vansbro, Sweden.
  • Website: Monark
• Concept 2 Rowing ergometer, Concept 2 Inc., Vermont, USA.
  • Website: Concept 2
• Woodway PPS 55 Sport slat-belt treadmill, Woodway GmbH, Weil am Rhein, Germany.
  • Website: woodway.de
• Taurus T10.5 Pro treadmill, Taurus Fitness Sport-Tiedje GmbH, Schleswig, Germany.
  • Website: Taurus
• Velotron cycle ergometer, RacerMate, Inc., Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Website: Velotron

User guides

• Lode Arm Ergometer User Guide
• Lode Programmer and Cortex user guide (.pdf)
• Monark 894E Wingate user guide (.pdf)
• Velotron User Guide

• GPS Sports Systems SPI Pro X, Australia.
  • GPS System User Guide (.pdf)

• Takei 5001 Grip Dynamometer Analogue, Takai Scientific Instruments Co., Ltd., Niigata City, Japan.

• Polar heart rate monitor, Polar Electro, Finland.
  • Website: Polar
• Polar Team 2 System, China.
• Polar RS800CX Heart rate watch, China.
• Polar FT1 Heart rate watch, China.
• Polar T31 Heart rate strap, Finland.

• Biodex System 3 Medical Systems 830-200, Shirley, N.Y. 11967 USA.
  • Biodex user guide (.pdf)

• Jump Mat – Probotics Inc. 8602 Esslinger CT, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
• Optojump Microgate RX30, Italy.
  • User guide: Optojump User Guide (.pdf)

• DS7A Current Stimulator, Digitimer, Hertfordshire, UK
  • Website: Digitimer

• Cardiochek P.A., Polymer Technology Systems, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

• Lactate Pro 2, Blood lactate test meter, Arkray, Shiga, Japan.
• Statstrip Lactate Xpress Meter, Nova Biomedical, Waltham, USA.

• Actigraph GT1M, Actigraph Corp., Pensacola, FL32502, USA.

• Onyx Vantage Pulse Oximeter, Nonin Medical, Inc., Plymouth, USA.

• Cortex Metalyzer 2R on-line gas analyser, Cortex, Leipzig, Germany.
• Cortex Metalyser 3B, Cortex Metamax 3B.
  • Related: Metasoft v.2.1 software, DVT or triple V volume transducer.
  • Website: cortex-medical.de ‌
• Cosmed K4B2 gas analyser, Rome, Italy.
• Morgan Medical EX671 mass spectrophotometer gas analyser, Ferarris Respiratory, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
• Jaeger Oxycon Pro breath-by-breath ergospirometry system, VIASYS Healthcare GmbH, Hoechburg, Germany.
• Medgraphics Cardiorespiratory Diagnostics, Express Series, Gloucester, UK.

User guides

• Cortex Gas Analyser User Guide (.pdf)‌ 
• New Cortex Gas Analyser Software (.pdf)
• New Cortex Software and Lode Programmer (.pdf)
• Cosmed K4b2 User Guide (.pdf)
• Medgraphics Gas Analyser User Guide (.pdf)

• Seca digital column scale SEC-170, Seca, Hamburg, Germany.
• Seca stadiometer SEC-225, Seca, Hamburg, Germany.
• Digital scales sensitive to 100 g (Hampel XWM-150K, Hampel Electronics Co. Taiwan)
• Digital scales sensitive to 100 mg (Ohaus CS-200, Ohaus, New Jersey)
• Digital Scales sensitive to .00mg (Mettler Toledo Precision Scales Excellence Plus XP205, Switzerland.)
• Digital scales sensitive to 100mg: Ohaus Valor 3000 Xtreme, Ohaus Corporation, USA.

• Microplus handheld spirometer, Micro Medical Limited, Rochester, UK.
• Micro I spirometer, Carefusion, Basingstoke, UK.
• Micro RPM handheld mouth pressure meter, Micro Medical Limited, Rochester, UK.

• Powertap G3 Hub, Wisconsin, USA. (Wheel)
  • User guide: Powertap User Guide
• Joule GPS, Wisconsin, USA. (Display unit)
• Heart rate monitor: Power ANT+, Wisconsin, USA. (Heart rate Monitor)
• Poweragent, Wisconsin, USA. (Software)
• Cycleops Super Magneto, Wisconsin, USA. (Turbo Trainer)
• SRAM GXP SRM powermeter, SRM International, Julich, Germany.
  • User guide: SRM Powermeter User Guide (.pdf)
• SRM Powercontrol VII, SRM International, Julich, Germany.
• Exocet II, Planet X time trial bike, Planet X, Sheffield, UK.
• Stealth, Planet X time trial bike, Planet X, Sheffield, UK.
• Kurt Kinetic Rock and Roll II Turbo Trainer, T-2300, Minneapolis, USA.
• SRM Win Software, Julich, Germany.

• Timing Gates - Brower TC Timing System, Draper, Utah, USA.
• Stopwatch, Fisher Scientific, Loughborough, UK.
• Traceable Timer, Fisher Scientific, Loughborough, UK.

• Rectal thermistor (YSI temperature probe, Henleys Medical, Hertfordshire, UK)
• Temperature switchbox (YSI Precision 4000, Henleys Medical, Hertfordshire)
• Handheld digital refractometer, calibrated between 0 to 1500 mOsmol.kg H2O (Pocket Osmocheck, Vitech Scientific, UK)
• Prestige Medical, Advance B Autoclave, Blackburn, UK.
• Sanyo VIP Series, Ultra Low Freezers, Japan.
• Skin Temperature Monitor - Grant Squirrel SQ800, Dundee, Scotland.
• Computrainer Lab, Racer Mate, Seattle, WA, USA.
  • User guide: CompuTrainer User Guide (.pdf)