Course Title:
Science of Exercise for Health
Combination of Three Courses:A. Science of Exercise
B. Hacking Exercise for Health. The surprising new science of fitness
C. Managing Your Health: The Role of Physical Therapy and Exercise
Course Description:
Learners who complete Science of Exercise will have an improved physiological understanding of how your body responds to exercise, and will be able to identify behaviors, choices, and environments that impact your health and training. You will explore a number of significant adjustments required by your body in order to properly respond to the physical stress of exercise, including changes in carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism, nutritional considerations, causes of muscle soreness & fatigue, and the effectiveness and dangers of performance enhancing drugs. Active learning assessments will challenge you to apply this new knowledge via nutrition logs, heart rate monitoring, calculations of your total daily caloric expenditure and body mass index (BMI). Finally, learners will examine the scientific evidence for the health benefits of exercise including the prevention and treatment of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity (weight loss), depression, and dementia.
Hacking Exercise for Health will give you the tools and techniques to incorporate exercise into your life, no matter how busy you are. To teach you the basics about the way your body boosts its fitness and strength. To provide you with a series of do anywhere workouts and, most importantly, to teach you what you need to know to design your own sessions.
Managing Your Health: The Role of Physical Therapy and Exercise will introduce learners to the concepts and benefits of physical therapy and exercise.
Course instructional level:
Beginner
Course Duration:
3 Month/6 Month
Hours: (10+23+13) 46 Hrs
Course coordinator:
Mr. Aayush Jadhav
Course coordinator's profile(s):
Course Contents:
A. Course Contents: Science of Exercise
Module/Topic name | Sub-topic | Duration |
1. The energetics of exercise | Introduction to Exercise Science | 4 mins |
Principles in Exercise Physiology | 8 mins | |
Calorimetry & Oxygen Consumption | 6 mins | |
ATP & Muscular Work | 9 mins | |
Carbohydrate Metabolism During Exercise | 9 mins | |
Carbohydrate Metabolism Continued | 7 mins | |
Fat Metabolism During Exercise | 7 mins | |
Protein Metabolism During Exercise | 7 mins | |
2. Physiological systems during exercise | Skeletal Muscle Structure & Function | 9 mins |
Respiratory System Responses to Exercise | 10 mins | |
Cardiovascular System Responses to Exercise | 7 mins | |
Cardiovascular System Continued | 9 mins | |
Endocrine System Responses to Exercise | 8 mins | |
Endocrine System Continued | 7 mins | |
Immune System Responses to Exercise | 10 mins | |
3. Exercise for fitness & performance | Adaptations to Endurance Training | 9 mins |
Adaptations to Strength Training | 10 mins | |
Nutritional Considerations for Exercise | 11 mins | |
Causes of Muscle Fatigue | 10 mins | |
Causes of Muscle Soreness | 9 mins | |
Performance Enhancing Drugs | 7 mins | |
Performance Enhancing Drugs Continued | 10 mins | |
4. Exercise in health, wellness & disease | Exercise is Medicine | 9 mins |
Diet, Exercise and Weight Control | 10 mins | |
Exercise and Risk Factors for Heart Disease | 9 mins | |
Exercise and Risk Factors for Diabetes | 7 mins | |
Exercise and Risk Factors for Cancer | 8 mins | |
Exercise and Successful Aging | 9 mins | |
Exercise and Your Brain | 9 mins |
B. Course Contents: Hacking Exercise for Health. The surprising new science of fitness
Module/Topic name | Sub-topic | Duration |
1. The basics of fitness | What is fitness anyway? | 5 mins |
What is the exercise continuum? | 6 mins | |
How to assess your own fitness | 4 mins | |
How do you get the biggest bang for your exercise buck? | 5 mins | |
2. Cardiorespiratory fitness | What’s the most important number you have? | 4 mins |
Where do the Physical Activity Guidelines come from, anyway? | 4 mins | |
How can you hack cardiorespiratory fitness? | 5 mins | |
Why does H.I.T.T. work? | 4 mins | |
Which burns more calories: Interval or Endurance Training? | 4 mins | |
What are some interval workouts I can do at home? | 8 mins | |
3. Musculoskeletal fitness | Can you hack strength training? | 5 mins |
What’s up with muscle fiber? | 7 mins | |
Can we actually prompt our muscles to grow? | 6 mins | |
What does protein have to do with muscles? | 6 mins | |
How does one hack strength training? | 8 mins | |
What should I consider as I design my own workouts? | 5 mins | |
4. Combining cardio & strength fitness | Which is better: cardio or strength training? | 5 mins |
What does a cardio & strength training workout actually look like? | 5 mins | |
Can you design your own cardio & strength workout? | 6 mins | |
How can exercise affect your mental health? | 4 mins | |
Can't you get exercise in a pill? | 5 mins | |
What are our top ten tips to hack exercise for health? | 6 mins |
C. Course Contents: Managing Your Health: The Role of Physical Therapy and Exercise
Module/Topic name | Sub-topic | Duration |
1. Intro to the Course and module | A welcome video by your coaches | 3 mins |
Welcome! A brief video from your module coach, Euson | 1 mins | |
Why is Physical Activity Important? | 24 mins | |
2. Managing your health-1 | Welcome Video | |
Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease | 9 mins | |
3. Managing your health-2 | Welcome Video | 1 min |
Osteoporosis & Exercise | 12 mins | |
4. Managing your health-3 | Welcome Video | |
Exercise and Cancer | 13 mins | |
5. Managing your health-4 | A message from your coach, Euson | 1 min |
Exercise and Common Sport Injuries | 17 mins | |
6. Managing your health-5 | Welcome Video | 1 min |
Exercise and Arthritis | 13 mins |
Course Outcomes:
- Explain the relationship between exercise and the body's physiological responses, including carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism
- Describe the role of nutritional choices and their impact on health and training
- Summarize the factors that contribute to muscle soreness, fatigue, and the dangers associated with performance-enhancing drugs
- How to evaluate the role that physical activity plays in your health
- How your cardiorespiratory fitness can be improved with aerobic training
- How strength training results in strength gains and improve your health
- How to formulate you own cardiorespiratory and musculoskeletal exercise routine to improve your health
- Why physical activity and exercise are important
- Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease
- Exercise and Osteoporosis
- Exercise and Cancer
- Common Sports Injuries
- Exercise and Arthritis