Course program
Exercise Physiology.
• Bioenergetics: aerobic metabolism, anaerobic lactacid and a-lactacid metabolism.
• Cardio-circulatory, respiratory and metabolic adjustments and adaptations to physical exercise.
Components of Physical Fitness (maximum aerobic power, anaerobic capacity and power, strength and muscular endurance, flexibility, body composition).
Functional Evaluation of Fitness.
Functional age related decay.
Exercise as prevention and therapy in elderly people.
Neurological and physiatric classifications of the lesion levels of different disorders (spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy).
The Paralympic athletes.
Prerequisites
Cardiovascular physiology. Physio-pathology of movement.
Books
The student is provided on the specific topics with material in the form of scientific papers and handouts produced by the teacher and documents produced by specific scientific societies and by national and international sports organizations.
The student who wanted to deepen can use books of Exercise Physiology such as:
Exercise Physiology: Integrating Theory and Application by William J. Kraemer Ph.D., Steven J. Fleck PhD, et al. | Publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Aug 23, 2016
Teaching mode
"Ex chatedra" lectures with slides and videos.
Frequency
Three hours of lectures per week.
Exam mode
Multiple choice quiz
Lesson mode
"Ex chatedra" lectures with slides and videos.