Qualifications Bachelor of Human Movement Studies (Honours) - Southern Cross University, Lismore Bachelor of Health Science - Griffith University, Gold Coast Ph.D. (Exercise Science)- Griffith University, Gold Coast Dr Keogh's research focuses on understanding the acute stresses, and the chronic adaptations resulting from a range of physical activities, particularly resistance training and more recently dance and acquatic exercise. His research focuses on these two areas for both athletic populations and for older adults, where both general and specific therapeutic physical activity may have differing effects and various motives and barriers to continual participation. His sports science research has concentrated on activities such as rugby union, powerlifting, sprinting and golf, with a new emphasis being the sport of strongman. His research involving older adults has focused on community-dwelling elders as well as those with chronic conditions especially cancer. The older adult research has focused on understanding the causes of the age-related decline in upper limb fine-motor control, the benefits of resistance training, dancing etc for improving physical function and qulaity of life as well as barriers and motives to physical activity.
Cancer and Physical Activity
Body composition, physical fitness, functional performance, quality of life, and fatigue benefits of exercise for prostate cancer patients: A systematic review (with Roderick D. MacLeod), Journal of pain and symptom management (2012)
Context: Prostate cancer patients, especially those on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), experience many symptoms that...
Moving beyond pink: The personalised approach to exercise for for breast cancer survivors (with L. M. Jones and A. E. White), Oedeminus (2011)
Treatment for breast cancer can leave the cancer survivor with lingering fatigue, physical limitation, pain,...
A randomised feasibility study of EPA and Cox-2 inhibitor (Celebrex), Resistance Training followed by ingestion of essential amino acids high in leucine in NSCLC cachetic patients - ACCeRT study (with Elaine S. Rogers, Roderick D. MacLeod, Joanna Stewart, and Stephen P. Bird), BMC Cancer (2011)
Background
Cancer cachexia is a syndrome of progressive weight loss. Non-small cell lung cancer patients experience...
The importance of promoting physical activity for cancer survivorship (with Lynnette Jones), New Zealand medical journal (2011)
Extract:
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in many countries, including New...
Predictors of physical activity and quality of life in New Zealand prostate cancer survivors undergoing androgen-deprivation therapy (with Daniel Shepherd, Christian U. Krageloh, Clare Ryan, Jonathan Masters, Greg Shepherd, and Rod MacLeod), New Zealand medical journal (2010)
Aims The aims of this study were to: quantify the levels and predictors of physical...
Older Adults and Physical Activity
Resistance training can improve fine manual dexterity in essential tremor patients: A preliminary study (with Graeme Sequeira and Justin J. Kavanagh), Archives of physical medicine and rehabiliation (2012)
Objective: To determine if a short-term resistance training (RT) program of the upper limb can...
Sarcopenia in older adults (with Timothy Henwood and Mike Climstein), Australian nursing journal (2012)
Extract:
Sarcopenia is a little acknowledged geriatric syndrome associated with significant health care and personal burden...
Development of a clinical multiple-lunge test to predict falls in older adults (with Ruth Wagenaar and Denise Taylor), Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation (2012)
Objective: To develop a new Multiple-Lunge Test to distinguish between fallers and nonfallers in community-dwelling...
Can the Nintendo WII (TM) sports game system be effectively utilized in the nursing home environment? (with N. Power, L. Wooller, P. Lucas, and C. Whatman), The journal of community informatics (2012)
This mixed-method study examined the feasibility and potential benefits of five weeks of Nintendo Wii...
Effects of different weekly frequencies of dance on older adults' functional performance and physical activity patterns (with Andrew Kilding, Philippa Pidgeon, Linda Ashley, and Dawn Gillis), European journal of sports and exercise science (2012)
This study examined the effect of dancing on the functional performance and physical activity levels...
Exercise and Sports Biomechanics
A biomechanical comparison of the traditional squat, powerlifting squat, and box squat (with Paul A. Swinton, Ray Lloyd, Ioannis Agouris, and Arthur D. Stewart), Journal of strength and conditioning research (2012)
Swinton, PA, Lloyd, R, Keogh, JWL, Agouris, I, and Stewart, AD. A biomechanical comparison of...
Evidence for biomechanics and motor learning research improving golf performance (with Patricia A. Hume), Sports biomechanics (2012)
The aim of this review was to determine how the findings of biomechanics and motor...
Effect of load positioning on the kinematics and kinetics of weighted vertical jumps (with Paul A. Swinton, Arthur D. Stewart, Ray Lloyd, and Ioannis Agouris), Journal of strength and conditioning research (2012)
Swinton, PA, Stewart, AD, Lloyd, R, Agouris, I, and Keogh, JWL. Effect of load positioning...
Effects of two contrast training programs on jump performance in rugby union players during a competition phase (with Christos K. Argus, Nicholas D. Gill, Michael R. McGuigan, and Will G. Hopkins), International journal of sports physiology and performance (2012)
Purpose: There is little literature comparing contrast training programs typically performed by team-sport athletes within...
Interrelationships between strength, anthropometrics, and strongmen performance in novice strongman athletes (with Paul W. Winwood and Nigel K. Harris), Journal of strength and conditioning research (2012)
Winwood, PW, Keogh, JWL, Harris, NK, and Weaver, LM. Interrelationships between strength, anthropometrics, and strongman...