Degress

PhD, Kent State University, 

Awards 

  • Selected by the City of Independence, Ohio, to be featured on the cover of Independence Magazine (Great Lakes Publishing) as the representative business of the city, 2025.

Academic and Professional Highlights

Prior Positions

  • University of Akron, Adjunct Professor

Areas of Research/Expertise

  • Aging and neurological disorders that limit movement and recovery
  • Exercise and effect on neurological rehabilitation
  • Physical responses to physiological stress
  • Muscular response and recovery
  • Health, nutrition and obesity

Appointments and Certifications

  • American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Certified Exercise Physiologist
  • ACSM Exercise is Medicine certification
  • ACSM Health & Fitness Journal - Editorial board member & manuscript reviewer
  • CUC Health & Wellness committee member
  • Teaching, Learning & Technology Council member representing the College of Health, Sciences & Technology
  • Faculty Senate member
  • Faculty Senate taskforce meeting on mission and identity
  • Program lead Exercise Physiology concentration accreditation
  • University Institutional Review Board member
  • Sciences and Technology, Faculty Senate member
  • University Health & Wellness committee member

Publications:

  • Peters, F. (2025). Sarcopenia and dynapenia: Harnessing resistance training to counter age-related muscle decline. ACSM Health & Fitness Journal, Medical Report Column.

  • Peters, F. (2025). The Clinical Exercise Blueprint: A Doctor's Guide to Reclaiming Strength, Energy, and Health for Life - Without Drugs or Gimmicks. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FL1JGH5W

  • Harper, S., Peters, F., Pollock, B., Burns, K., McDaniel, J., Ridgel, A. (2020). "Design of an eccentric bicycle to elicit delayed onset muscle soreness." Frontiers in Physiology.

  • Peters, F. (2018). Weight Management Rewire, Prepare and Control. American College of Sports Medicine Health & Fitness Journal. (22) 5, 3-4.

  • Peters, F., McDaniel, J., Ridgel, A. (2015). "Analyzing the effects of localized vibration on delayed onset muscle soreness following intense eccentric cycling." Kent State University. https://www.amazon.com/Localized-Vibration-Soreness-Following- Eccentric/dp/3668311765

Presentations:

  • ACSM Annual Conference - Training with A Fitness Professional Reduces Exercise Self-Efficacy In The Sedentary, Obese, Older Adult (2024)

  • Cleveland Clinic Independence Health Center - "Caring For The Caregivers" (2018)

  • Annual Ohio Parkinson's Summit - "Analyzing the Effects of Eccentric Cycling in Parkinson's Disease" (2016)

  • Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities - "Cognitive Decline in the Aging Population" (2017)

  • Cleveland Public School District - "Health in the Classroom: A Guide to Combat Childhood Obesity" (2018)

  • 2nd Annual Northeast Ohio Exercise Science Conference (University of Akron) - "Development of an Eccentric Cycling Paradigm to Produce Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness" (2013)

  • Expert Guest - Golden Opportunities (WKYC Cleveland) - Health Panel, 2018

  • Expert Guest - Live on Lakeside (WKYC Cleveland) - Gearing Up For Summer with Simple, Effective Exercise, 2016

  • Expert Guest - Live on Lakeside (WKYC Cleveland) - Spring into Fitness, 2016