Dr. Israel Halperin
Dr. Halperin completed his Ph.D. studies at Edith-Cowan University in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Sport in 2017. He studied the effects of augmented feedback on the performance of elite athletes under the supervision of Professor Chris Abbiss. He then completed his post-doctoral training with Professor David Behm at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, focusing on ways to optimize exercise training programs. Dr. Halperin joined the School of Public Health at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Sylvan Adams Sport Institute as a faculty member in 2019.
Yedidya Silverman
Laboratory Manager
Yedidya completed his BPT in physiotherapy at Ben-Gurion University in 2017, and is currently pursuing his MSc in Clinical Epidemiology at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem. His research focuses on modelling the effects of community-based intervention programs on the incidence of fall-related fractures in older populations. Yedidya assists in designing experiments, data gathering and analysis on many of the projects being carried out in our lab in addition to running it's day to day affairs.
Hadar Schwartz
PhD Student
Hadar completed her BPT (2008) and MScPt (2015) in Physiotherapy at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of autonomy-supportive and perception-based resistance training prescription models.
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Ori Kobi
Msc Student
Ori completed his BSc in biology and economy at the Open University (2019). His research focuses on the utility of RPE as an intensity prescription method in small-sided games in soccer.
Shlomi Hail
Msc Student
Shlomi completed his BA in health administration at Ariel University in 2022. His research focuses on the relationship between perception, performance and physiological measures of effort.
Asaf Boshi
Msc Student
Asaf completed his BPT in Physiotherapy in 2022. His research will focus on the effects of prescribing various RPE values on physiological, performance, and psychological outcomes during dynamic, multi- joint RT exercises
Dennis
Okhamafe
Msc Student
Dennis completed both his BA in behavioral science and his MA in management and conflict resolution at Ben Gurion university. His research focuses on the effect of various types of anchors on ratings of perceived effort.
Matan Amitay
Msc Student
Matan completed his BSc in Exercise science at NCWU (2023). His research focuses on how different RPE anchors affect physiological and psychological outcomes
Msc Student
Tomer Malleron
Tomer completed his BPT in physiotherapy at Ben-Gurion University in 2019 and his MSc in 2023. Tomer's research focused on the effects of using task-based imposed or self-selected anchors on subject's RPE .
Alumni
Aviv Emmanuel
PhD Student
Aviv completed his BA in Psychology and Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University (2015), and his M.A in Social Psychology at Tel-Aviv University (2017). He completed his PhD in 2022. Aviv’s research focused on motivation, effortful behavior, and applied psychology in sports and exercise.
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Yael Zeevi
Msc Student
Yael completed her BPT in Physiotherapy at Tel Aviv University (2015) and her MSc in exercise physiology in 2023. Her research focused on assessing different methods of prescribing exercise intensity in group based settings through the use of RPE .
Aviv Emmanuel
PhD Student
Aviv completed his BA in Psychology and Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University (2015), and his M.A in Social Psychology at Tel-Aviv University (2017). Aviv’s research focused on motivation, effortful behavior, and applied psychology in sports and exercise. He completed his PhD in 2022.
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Eyal Colorni
Msc Student
Eyal competed his B.Ed in (2011) and an M.P.E (2014) in Physical Education at the Academic College at Wingate. Eyal studied the effects of self-selected rest periods in a repeated sprint protocol on physiological, psychological, and performance outcomes.
Asaf Ben Ari
Msc Student
Asaf completed his BPT in physiotherapy at Tel Aviv University (2018). His research focused on comparing the effects of self-selected or fixed rest periods on physiological, psychological, and performance outcomes.
Miri Nevo
Msc Student
Miri completed her B.Ed in Physical Education at the Seminar Kibbutzim College in 1994. Her research focused on the long term effects of attentional focus on motor skills.
Shlomi Konfino
Msc Student
Shlomi completed his B.Ed in Physical Education at the Seminar Kibbutzim College (2021). His research focused on the effect of autonomy supportive and perception based resistance training prescription models on various physiological measures.