PT 570Hum Perf & Health Promotion I

Catalog

This course is the first in a series on Human Performance and Health Promotion and will focus on prevention of disease, promoting health, wellness, and fitness across the lifespan. Basic nutritional needs for health and athletic performance will be addressed. The course will lay the foundation of exercise physiology and prepare the student to describe the normal and abnormal physiological effects of aerobic and resistive exercise on different body systems for the well individual across the lifespan and for selected special populations with and without impairments. This course will prepare the student for the continuation course of PT 575 Human Performance and Health Promotion II.