Yoshifumi Tsuchiya is Graduate Student in Sport and Health Science of Ritsumeikan University, and his research manuscript was accepted and published in Metabolism, which collaborated with Associate Professor Kazushige Goto. The study revealed that Resistance exercise resulted in significantly greater irisin responses compared with endurance exercise alone, and resistance and endurance exercises combined under equivalent exercise duration.

Tsuchiya Y, Ando D, Takamatsu K. and Goto K. (2015). Resistance exercise induces a greater irisin response than endurance exercise. Metabolism 64(9): 1042-50.