Exercise in Health and Research

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction to the study of physical activity and its effects on human health. Emphasis will be on acute and chronic physiologic responses to various types of exercise. Human adaptations to physical activity and animal models of those human adaptations will be discussed based on reviews of current literature. For those seeking careers in the health professions or graduate school, it provides an evidence-based perspective of how physical activity impacts human health and performance.