Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center
Drs. Jere Mitchell, Carleton Chapman, and Peter Snell, circa 1986 discussing follow up to the Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study, a landmark study in exercise science in which five male college students were confined to bed for three weeks to determine the cardiovascular de-conditioning effects of inactivity on the human body. The experiment was intended to mimic the effects of long-term manned space flight. Endurance training followed the bed rest. In a 1996 update of the Dallas Bed Rest Study, the five original participants were re-tested before and after exercise training.