Ever wonder how your muscles contract to create movement during exercise or how the heart pumps blood to all parts of your body to deliver enough oxygen for the muscles to work? Do you know how to eat for peak performance or how the body adapts to aerobic, anaerobic or resistance exercise? In this course you learn answers to these questions. This course takes a systems approach with emphasis on the muscular, nervous, metabolic, and respiratory systems. Understanding how the body reacts and adapts to the stressors of exercise is key for improving the health and athletic performance of an individual.
This course is designed to equip you with key insights into the science behind exercise. Over the course you’ll examine the acute and chronic impact that exercise and physical activity have on the body, and how it can be used to reduce the risk of early mortality and/or improve general health. You will learn how to examine your heart rate response to exercise as the simplest tool of physical fitness assessment and draw some basic parametes of your fitness level from heart rate response profile like heart rate recovery, heart rate reserve and heart rate variability (HRV). Recently, HRV is found to be an interesting marker for cardiac fitness level, resilience and even behavioral flexibility. In this course you will become familiar with the basics of HRV measurement and interpretation.
Even more, you will have the opportunity to determine your personal score regarding heart rate recovery, heart rate reserve and HRV during lab work included in this course. This course gives you the explanation of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET or CPEX), a specialized type of physical fitness assessment that measures your exercise ability through your cardiac, breathing and metabolic responses to exercise. If all three physiological systems listed are not responding adequately, exercise ability is impaired and it can be concluded which of the systems is compromised. Based on case studies discussed in this course you learn how to interpret CPET results. As exercise intensity increases, oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production participating in ATP production in the working muscle rise. Based on these information you will understand if the body’s response to exercise is normal or abnormal. This course will benefit those wanting to learn more about how the body works. If you are an advocate of healthy and responsible behavior this course will definitely help.
After this course you are able to:
- Conduct and interpret physical fitness assessments.
- Understand how human body responds to exercise.
- Measure and interpret basic indicators of exercise fitness including HRV.
- Use cardiopulmonary exercise testing as a tool to determine cardiopulmonary health.
The course is designed for
Everyone who sees exercise as an important element in the prevention and treatment of disease, and want to motivate people to practice healthy behaviors is welcome in this course. You should have basic knowledge in human biology or physiology at undergraduate university level.
Admission Requirements
To participate in this course you should know the basic principles of how human body works: be familiar with aerobic and anaerobic metabolism, skeletal muscle contraction, heart action and breathing. You should be able to work with Office for Windows or similar applications at Apple and preferably bring your laptop with you.
Course Fee: €600
ECTS credits: 2
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