Ann Snyder, Ph.D. 

Professor 

Interests and Expertise
Professor Snyder's research interests lie in the physiological responses to exercise and the adaptations which occur following physical training. This basic interest has evolved into three specific research interests. The longest standing of these areas of research is that of human performance and the assessment of exercise training techniques to enhance exercise and competition performance. This line of research has been the main stay of her academic career. Since she has been in Milwaukee (20+years), she has worked with numerous local and national athletes and teams in the study of exercise training. This research has progressed from the determination of lactate threshold, to the incidence of overtraining and how to protect from it, to oxygen utilization during exercise, the influence of different exercises on oxygen utilization and the energy expended (and oxygen utilized) during anaerobic and aerobic exercises. As we have recently seen that some activities previously thought to be primarily anaerobic in nature actually utilize a great deal of oxygen, energy expenditure and oxygen usage during anaerobic and aerobic exercises are the thrust of this research currently. The second area of research involves a team of professionals from UWM and MCW who are working with the United Community Center and more specifically the Bruce Guadalupe Charter Middle School in a project titled "Healthy Latino Families". This project initially began as a 6-month after school program which was very successful in enhancing the nutritional and physical activities of middle school aged children and their families. The plans for the project are to enhance the after school program to be more inclusive in the school curriculum and also to work with some of the policies that affect nutrient intake and physical activity in school to enhance the health and hopefully reduce the obesity risk of these children. This project is directly tied to the HMS 230 Health Aspects of Exercise and Nutrition course that she has taught for many years and also to the textbook that she wrote for this class. Her third area of interest lies in the use of near-infrared light as a healing modality. Far-red to near-infrared light penetrates into tissues and we have used it as a means of determining muscle oxygen saturation. These same wavelengths of light applied at a greater energy intensity stimulate mitochondrial energy metabolism and are likely to have a beneficial effect on muscle mass. As muscle apoptosis occurs with immobilization (as would occur with injury and/or aging) and with many diseases (diabetes and obesity to name two), this work has been very exciting with positive results seen from our preliminary results.

Recent Publications
Snyder, A.C. and D.K. Mauzy-Melitz. "Exercise, nutrition and you: An off-campus course for grades 2-12."Adv. Physiol. Edc 29:103-106, 2006.

Moeller, J. L. S. F. Rifat and A. C. Snyder. "Figure Skating." In: Winter Sports Medicine Handbook. Ed. by: James L. Moeller and S. F. Rifat. McGraw Hill Publishing, 2004, pp 295-332.

Snyder, A. C. "Nutritional Concerns of Women who Perform Resistance Training." In: Nutrition and the Strength Athlete. Ed. by: C. G. Ratzin Jackson, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL. 2000, pp:215-234

Snyder, A. C. and Foster, C. (2000) "Skating." In: Nutrition in Sports of the IOC Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine Series. Ed. by: R. Maughan. Blackwell Science, Inc.,

Snyder, A.C. (1998). Exercise Nutrition and Health. Cooper Publishing Group, Indianapolis, IN.

Snyder, A.C. (1998). "Overtraining and glycogen depletion hypothesis." Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 30:1146-1151.

Snyder, A.C. & Naik, J. (1998). "Protein requirements of athletes." In: Sports Nutrition. Ed. by: Berning, J. & Steen, S. Aspen Publishers, Inc., pp.45-58.

Snyder, A.C., Kuipers, H., Cheng, B., Servais, R., & Fransen, E. (1995) "Overtraining following intensified training with normal muscle glycogen." Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 27:1063-1070.

Snyder, A.C., Welsh, R., & Hanisch, R.J. (1995) "Nutritional concerns of recreational athletes who cross-train." In: Nutrition for the Recreational Athlete. Ed. by C.G. Ratzin Jackson, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL. pp. 71-93.

Snyder, A.C. & Foster, C. (1994) "Skating" In: Perspectives in Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Vol. 7, Physiology and Nutrition of Competitive Sport. Ed. by D. Lamb and H. Knuttgen, Benchmark Press, Indianapolis, IN. pp. 181-220.

Speaker Topics 
Athletic Performance, Training and Nutrition
Exercise, Nutrition and Health
Physical Activity and Aging

Education
Ph.D., Purdue University Exercise Physiology, 1982
M.A., Michigan State University Exercise Physiology, 1979
M.Ed., Bowling Green State University Physical Education, 1975
B.S., Western Michigan University Recreation Education, 1973
A.L.A, Lansing Community College, 1971