Phil Stanforth has over 40 years of university experience teaching undergraduate students and leading exercise and research programs. He is currently a Clinical Associate Professor and Executive Director of Fitness Institute of Texas in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at The University of Texas at Austin. Stanforth teaches and trains undergraduate students in the different techniques of fitness testing. As Executive Director of the Fitness Institute of Texas he oversees 2,000 fitness tests conducted each year and he helps develop and deliver health and fitness related programs, including Get FIT, an exercise and weight loss program. Stanforth is a Past President of the Texas Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Director, Instructor, and Exercise Technologist, American College of Sports Medicine, Health, and Fitness
Bosch, TA., Carbuhn, A., Stanforth, PR., Oliver, JM., Keller, KA. & Dengel, DR. (2017). Body composition and bone Mineral Density of Division I collegiate football players, a Consortium of College Athlete Research (C-CAR) study. Journal of Strength and Conditioning. doi:10.1519/JSC.0000000000001888.
Strasser, B., Arvandi, M., Pasha, EP., Haley, AP., Stanforth, P. & Tanaka, H. (2015). Abdominal obesity is associated with arterial stiffness in middle-aged adults. Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases, 25, 495–502.
Stanforth, D., Lu, T., Stults-Kolehmainen, MA., Crim, B. & Stanforth, PR. (2015). Bone mineral content and density among female NCAA Division I athletes across the competitive season and over a multi-year time frame. Journal of Strength and Conditioning.
Lee, JL., Freeland-Graves, JH., Pepper, MR., Stanforth, PR. & Xu, B. (2015). Prediction of android and gynoid body adiposity via a three-dimensional stereovision body imaging system and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry. Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
Stanforth, P., Crim, B., Stanforth, D. & Stults-Kolehmainen, M. (2014). Body composition changes among female NCAA Division 1 athletes across the competitive season and over a multiyear time frame.. Journal of Strength Conditioning Research, 28(2), 300–307.
Stults-Kolehmainen, M., Stanforth, P., Bartholomew, J., Lu, T., Abolt, C. & Sinha, R. (2013). DXA estimates of fat in abdominal, trunk and hip regions varies by ethnicity in men.. Nutrition & Diabetes, 3(3), e64.
Stults-Kolehmainen, M., Stanforth, P. & Bartholomew, J. (2012). Fat in android, trunk, and peripheral regions varies by ethnicity and race in college aged women.. Obesity, 20, 660–665.
Pepper, M., Freeland-Graves, J., Yu, W. & Stanforth, P. (2010). Validation of a 3-Dimensional Laser Body Scanner for Assessment of Waist and Hip Circumference.. Journal of the American College of Nutrition., 29, 179–188.
Stanforth, P. (2004). Generalized abdominal visceral fat prediction models for black and white adults aged 17-65 y: the HERITAGE Family Study.. International Journal of Obesity, 28, 925–932.
Jackson, A. & Stanforth, P. (2002). The effect of sex, age and race on estimating percentage body fat from body mass index: The Heritage Family Study.. International Journal of Obesity, 26, 1–8.
