Keijo Häkkinen

           

Professor (emeritus) Keijo Häkkinen                                                                                                          

Neuromuscular Research Center, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences

Contact information: 

Neuromuscular Research Center, Biology of Physical Activity,

Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences P.O. Box 35 (VIV)

40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland Email: Keijo.Hakkinen@jyu.fi Tel.: +358 45 3407270

Education:

1975  B.Sc. (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

1977  M.Sc. (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

1982  Licentiate of Philosophy (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

1986   PhD (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)   

Keijo Häkkinen at his PhD defence  in 1986 

Scientific competence:

1989  The academic chair: Professorship in Biomechanics

1991  The academic chair: Professorship in Exercise Physiology         

1992  Docent (Biology of Physical Training) Medical Faculty, University of Oulu, Finland

2001  The academic chair: Professorship in Science of Sport Coaching and Fitness Testing

 

Most important international research related visits:

1994 (5 months) Visiting Professor (Penn State University, Center for Sports Medicine, USA) working  with professor William J. Kraemer: K. Häkkinen and W.J. Kraemer, USA, in 1994 

1997 (5 months) Visiting Professor (Southern Cross University, AUS) working with prof. Robert Newton: R. Newton, W.J. Kraemer and K. Häkkinen in 1997 

2000 (2 wks) Visiting Emens Distinguished Professor (Ball State University, USA)

2013 (2 wks) Visiting Professor (Edith Cowan University, AUS) Keijo Häkkinen in ECU, Australia

2018 (1 wk) Co-operative research visit (Edith Cowan University, Exercise & Sport Science, AUS)

 

Three most important international research co-workers including the highest number of high level international co-publications over the years of 1992-2023:

Professor William J. Kraemer, Penn State University, and currently Ohio State University, USA 

Professor Robert U. Newton, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Professor Mikel Izquierdo, Public University of Pamplona, Pamplona, Spain

 

Most important scientific honors:

1996-2001 Appointment as Honorary Research Fellow, Southern Cross University, Lismore, AUS

2000 Appointment "Emens Distinguished Professor" Ball State University, USA

2006 Distinguished Invited Lecturer Award at the University of Connecticut, USA

2013 The University’s Jubilee Year Award for remarkable life’s work, University of Jyväskylä, FIN

2015 The National Strength and Conditioning Association NSCA Impact Award, Colorado, USA

2022 Jubilee Award for outstanding research actions and contribution to the development to

         the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, FIN

Major research interests:

  1. Acute neuromuscular, hormonal and mechanical responses to various resistance exercise protocols in men and women, various athlete groups and aging population 
  2. Neuromuscular, hormonal and physiologic adaptations during prolonged strength training and detraining in men and women, adolescents, athletes and aging population 
  3. Acute neuromuscular, cardiorespiratory & physiologic responses and chronic adaptations to combined endurance and strength training modes in men and women and endurance athletes
  4. Physical performance profiles & competitive performance in sport events and training, seasonal and detraining adaptations e.g. weightlifting, bodybuilding & fitness sports, wrestling & judo, track and field: sprinting & jumping, throwing and endurance athletes, cross-country skiers, basketball, volleyball, soccer and ice-hockey

 International scientific publications in numbers:

Original peer-reviewed scientific articles: around 435 

  An example of one of the well cited articles by Robert Newton and Keijo Häkkinen et al. (2002)

     An example of one the most cited articles by William Kraemer and Keijo Häkkinen et al. (2004)

An example of one of the most cited articles by M. Izquierdo and K. Häkkinen et al. (2006)

An example of one of the most cited articles by J. Ahtiainen and K. Häkkinen et al. (2016) 

An example of one of the latest well cited article by Aapo Räntilä and Keijo Häkkinen et al. (2021)

 
Peer-reviewed reviews in scientific journals, articles in books & conference proceedings: 60, Books: 8
 
Non-refereed scientific articles: around 20
Abstracts: around 425

 

List of international original peer-reviewed scientific articles in PUBMED:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=H%C3%A4kkinen+K                                                                                                               

Domestic scientific, professional and other publications:

Articles, reviews, and others: around 175, Books: 9

"Three examples of the books:

1) "Voimaharjoittelun Perusteet" 1990: Keijo Häkkinen

2) "Huippu-urheiluvalmennus" 2016: Mero, Nummela, Kalaja, Häkkinen

3) Fyysisen kunnon mittaaminen" 2018: Keskinen, Häkkinen, Kallinen

Summary of international and national presentations in numbers:

International invited and other scientific presentations in scientific congresses: around 115
Invited presentations in national congresses and seminars: over 75
 

Summary of PhD education in numbers:

PhD students supervised for their doctoral degrees: 27

Currently PhD students under supervision: 4                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Most important scientific related actions:

Member in the Council of the International Society of Biomechanics
Member in the European College of Sport Science
Chairman and founder member in the International Scientific Committee of International Conference Series on Strength Training (1998-2025)
12th International Conference on Strength Training, ICST2023, Sept. 27-29, 2023, at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
 
Member in the editorial boards of several international scientific journals
Chairman and organizer of a number of International Congresses (around 30)
Chairperson of a number of sessions of International Congresses (around 50)
    Acting as a Reviewer and Opponent for a number of PhD Theses
        Acting as a Custodian at the Oral Defense of a number of PhD Theses

Acting  an international expert evaluator of the scientific competence for professorships

University Jubilee Year Award for remarkable life work, University of Jyväskylä (2013)

   Keijo Häkkinen in the Award photo 2013 

The award of the Jyväskylä Convention Bureau for organizing the congress in 2015 in Jyväskylä

Internationally recognized top level researcher in his field based on the international scientific publications Professor Keijo Häkkinen in Helsingin Sanomat 2020 (In Finnish) 

The award of the Jyväskylä Convention Bureau for organizing the 12th ICST Conference with J. Ahtiainen et al. in 2023 in Jyväskylä                                                                                                                            

Most important professional and societal actions: 

Vice member in the board of the University of Jyväskylä

Chairman in the Committee of the Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences

Chairman of the Research School, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä•

Vice Dean in the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä

Head of the Department of Biology of Physical Activity

Member in the Ethics Committee, University of Jyväskylä

Silver award from the Finnish Society of Sport Science         

                                       

 Most important sport related actions:

    Personal physical activities and competitive sport:

    • Background as a competitive athlete in weightlifting (1969-1976)   

          and in track and field (1965-1971)   (and 2003-2011)  

• Enjoying still today lifting weights: clean & jerk  and  snatch etc. and training for endurance e.g. by biking 

Actual professional sport related activities:

Coach in weightlifting in Finland (1977-1977)

Expert in the Finnish Weightlifting Federation

Chairman in the Scientific Committee of the Finnish Weightlifting Federation                                             

Member in the Board of the Finnish Weightlifting Federation                                                                       

Dibloma from the Finnish Weightlifting Federation                                                                                       

Medal of the 80th Anniversary of the Finnish Weightlifting Federation                   

Expert member in the Finnish Track and Field Association

Member & vice chair in the Board of Research Institute for Olympic Sports, Finland (1991-2017)
Member in the Polar Fitness Segment Scientific Advisory Board
Member in the Research and Development Group of the Finnish Top Sport
Silver award from the Sport Club of Jyväskylän Kenttäurheiljat
 

For more information see ResearchGate:

https://www.res: earchgate.net/profile/Keijo_Haekkinen 

Some examples of Media appearances:

2024:

Nice Review by Llanos-Lagos et al. about positive and specific effects of strength training on economy in endurance runners

2023:

Our new systematic review by Mikkonen, Ihalainen, Hackney and Häkkinen about concurrent strength and endurance training in adult females is now out in Sports Medicine, November 2023 

A nice article by Cornejo-Daza et al. published recently in 2023 about the cluster set protocol and acute loading-induced fatique and recovery

Keijo Häkkinen giving a presentation on September 26, 2023 at the 12th International Conference on Strength Training (ICST2023) in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland

 

 

 

Practical demonstrations of proper technique of weightlifting in the lecture hall by Heikki Keskitalo and Hannes Keskitalo lifting 180 kg easily in this video in the clean & jerk 

Our article by Räntilä, Ahtiainen & Häkkinen: "Acute loading fatigability, serum hormone responses, training volume and individual hypertrophy and strength gains during strength training" in JSSM 2023

A nice Meta-Analysis by Nuzzo JL 2023 about sex differences in skeletal muscle fiber types

An article by Ailshida et al. 2023 et al. about performance decreases after high volume protocol.

A nice study by Yoshida et al. 2023 about the use of eccentric versus concentric fatiguing loading

2022:

I was happy to be awarded a jubilee medal for outstanding research actions and contribution to the development over the past decades to the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences in 2022

Our article by Seppänen and Häkkinen 2022 is now officially out in JSCR 

Our new article by Walker et al. 2022 has received a lot of good comments

Our new article by Kotikangas et al. 2022 in Frontiers of Sport and Active Living

Our new international co-operative paper by Häkkinen et al. 2022 in JSSM

12th International Conference on Strength Training will take place Sept. 27-29, 2023. at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Our article by Rissanen, Walker, et al. & Häkkinen 2022 has received a lot of positive attention

2021:

Ulkokuntosalilaitteet voivat olla tehokkaita voimaharjoituksen toteutuksessa

Positive comments by Keijo Häkkinen on the original article by Travis et al. 2021

Our new strength training paper by Räntilä et al. in JSCR 2021 has received positive attention

Positive comments by Keijo Häkkinen on the research article by Latella et al. 2021

Presentation by Scienze Motorie TV (YouTube) about scientific achievements by prof. K. Häkkinen

Our review paper about strength training by Lopez et al. 2021 came out in MSSE 

2020:

Keijo Häkkinen Jyväskylän yliopistosta tutkimuksen maailman huipputasolla

Yksi Helsingin Sanomien @hsfi listaamista huippututukijoista on prof. Keijo Häkkinen

Classic paper by Häkkinen et al. 1988 nicely noted by professor Greg Haff 

Our new Ahtiainen et al. paper 2020

Comments by prof. Galpin about the evaluation by Keijo Häkkinen of his new paper 2020  

2019:

Keijo Häkkinen ja Raahe

Voimaharjoittelu on erityisen tärkeää ikääntyvillä ihmisillä

Two Strength Training Books (in Finnish) (Keijo Häkkinen in 1990 and his former student Tuomas Rytkönen in 2018), Jyväskylä                                                                                   

One of our new publications (2019) that received a lot of interest

2018:

Keijo Häkkinen presenting at 11th ICST2018, Perth, Australia

Sienestys ei yksin riitä fyysisen kunnon kannalta

Laaja kansainvälinen Voima- ja kestävyysharjoittelun Symposium Jyväskylässä

A new record in the number of participants at our 19th Int. Symposium, Jyväskylä, Finland

New article on Combined Strength and Endurance Training

Fyysisen kunnon mittaaminen, 2013, Käsi- ja oppikirja kuntotestaajille

2017:

Intensive weight loss does not cause major health problems for female fitness competitors

2016:

Fitness urheilun painonpudotukset riskit odotettua pienemmät

11th International Conference on Strength Training, ICST2016, Kyuto, Japan

Näin yhdistät voima- ja kestävyysharjoittelun, Etelä-Saimaa

2015:

Helsingin Sanomat: Juoksija tarvitsee voimatreeniä ja voimalijakin jonkin verran kestävyysharjoittelua

Keijo Häkkiselle kansainvälinen tunnustus IMPACT AWARD voimaharjoitteluun liittyvästä tutkimustyöstä USA:sta NSCA järjestöltä

Jyväskylässä vuonna 2015 järjestettyjen kv. kongressien palkinto professori Keijo Häkkiselle

2014:

Savon Sanomat: Pitääkö kestävyyskuntoilijan karttaa punttitreeniä vai ei?

Performing cardio and strength in the same training session: In which order?     

2013:

Cardio or strength training first in a single training session? Or could it be sex specific?

Jyväskylän yliopiston palkinto merkittävästä elämäntyöstä liikuntabiologiassa prof. Keijo Häkkiselle

2011:        

Longevity: Prof. Keijo Häkkinen: The aging neuromuscular system in men and women still responds to strength training

2010:                                            

Lääkärilehti: Prof. Keijo Häkkinen: Voimaharjoittelu kannattaa aloittaa myös ikääntyneenä