Department of Exercise Sciences

We aim to understand the role of exercise in sustaining health, improving disease outcomes, and enhancing human performance through physical activity and sport.

Breath testing in exercise science teaching lab.

Undergraduate Exercise Sciences student.

Our research and teaching covers the disciplines of biomechanics, movement neuroscience, exercise physiology, metabolism and exercise and sport psychology.

Fitness test

Join us in uncovering the myths and reality behind exercise and fitness. Take EXERSCI 100G in any undergraduate programme - no science background is required.

Exercise science students in front of a computer display.

We offer Exercise Sciences programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Associate Professor Nicholas Gant

Our staff are internationally recognised and committed to producing high-quality research and teaching.

If you missed our webinar you can catch up online. View the presentation for our Clinical Exercise Physiology Postgraduate Programme.

Associate Professor Lynley Bradnam

Discover some of the exciting research happening in the Department with our selection of interviews from early-career and up-and-coming academics.

Megan Reyden, Exercise Science graduate.

Meet our students and find out what they have studied in Exercise Sciences.

Exercise science student testing in the teaching lab.

Find out more about our internationally recognised research across a broad range of areas within the exercise sciences.

Find detailed course information for our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Patient receiving treatment in the health and rehabilitation clinic.

Our clinic provides high-quality exercise rehabilitation services for people living with heart disease and other chronic illnesses or injury.

Exterior view of the Department of Exercise Sciences at the Newmarket Campus in Auckland

Take a virtual tour of the Department of Exercise Sciences

Discover our specialist laboratories, facilities, equipment and the Health and Rehabilitation Clinic in this three-minute video.

Exercise sciences opening

Keep up to date with the latest Science and Exercise Sciences news

Incredible science

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PG researchers

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