Performance Nutrition Series: Hydration Assessment and Wearable Technology

Yasuki Sekiguchi is an assistant professor and director of the Sports Performance Lab at the Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas Tech University. He received his bachelor’s degree at Kobe University in Japan, master’s degree at the University of Arkansas, and PhD and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Connecticut in exercise science. His area of expertise is enhancing thermoregulatory response (i.e., heat acclimation, heat acclimatization, cooling), optimizing hydration status and fluid balance, athlete training load and recovery monitoring, sleep monitoring, and wearable technology validation to improve exercise performance and overall health. He also has been working with youth to professional and Olympic athletes as a sports scientist and strength and conditioning coach. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist from National Strength and Conditioning Association. Enhancing exercise performance and recovery with practically applicable and widely accessible methods based on science is a broad aim of his Sports Performance Lab at Texas Tech University.