Senior Lecturer Rudi Meir AssocDipSptSc(NRCAE), BAppSc(CCAE), MA(Deakin) General Research Interests: * Sponsorship and marketing issues in professional sport franchises. * Brand development and merchandising in professional sport. * Managing the coaching/training environment. * Thermoregulation and fluid status. Current Research Projects (with possibility of supervising research students): * Factors influencing the consumer decision making process when purchasing season tickets. * The packaging of a match day entertainment as a strategy for increasing consumer satisfaction. * Estimated body temperature and body mass changes in professional rugby league players. * Comparison of fitness profiles of professional rugby union and rugby league players. * Acute effects of different training methods on 40 metre sprint performance.
Journal Articles
The triple-120 meter shuttle test: a sport specific test for assessing anaerobic endurance fitness in rugby league players (with Kate Holloway, Lyndon Brooks, and Cameron Phillips), The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (2008)
The aim of this study was to design a simple field test to measure the...
A preliminary investigation into the long-term injury consequences reported by retired baseball players (with Robert P. Weatherby and Margaret I. Rolfe), Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (2007)
Seventy-five retired baseball players participated in a survey (37.8% response rate) in order to establish...
Developing a prehabilitation programme in a collision sport: a model developed within English premiership rugby union football (with Wayne Diesel and Ed Archer), Strength and Conditioning Journal (2007)
Many sports involve contact that can result in significant injury to participants. In addition, by...
The effect of 5 weeks Tribulus terrestris supplementation on muscle strength and body compostition during pre-season training in elite league players (with Shane Rogerson, Christopher J. Riches, Robert P. Weatherby, Sonya M. Marshall-Gradisnik, and Carl Jennings), The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (2007)
Tribulus terrestris is an herbal nutritional supplement that is promoted to produce large gains in...
The effect of short-term use of testosterone enanthate on muscular strength and power in healthy young males (with Shane Rogerson, Robert P. Weatherby, Glen B. Deakin, Rosanne A. Coutts, Shi Zhou, and Sonya M. Marshall-Gradisnik), The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (2007)
Use of testosterone enanthate has been shown to significantly increase strength within 6–12 weeks of...
Book Chapters
Tribalism: attracting fans in a fragmented market, International cases in the business of sports (2007)
Conference Publications
Thermoregulation in rugby league (with A Davie), Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Conference: Exercise and Thermoregulation (1995)
Plyometric and special speed training for the modern footballer (with J Pryor), Abstracts of the First Australian Science in Football Congress (1994)
The application of periodisation principles to professional rugby league, Abstracts of the First Australian Science in Football Congress (1994)