- Docente: Samuele Maria Marcora
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-EDF/01
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Samuele Maria Marcora (Modulo 1) Samuele Maria Marcora (Modulo 2) Alessandro Piras (Modulo 3)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2) Traditional lectures (Modulo 3)
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Physical Activities (cod. 9263)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student:
- knows the neuromuscular basis of physical exercise;
- knows the metabolic, cardiovascular, and respiratory responses before, during and after exercise (acute responses) and the role of the nervous and endocrine systems in regulating them;
- knows the morphological, neuromuscular, metabolic, cardiovascular, respiratory and endocrine adaptations induced by training and physical de-conditioning (chronic responses);
- is able to evaluate the quantitative parameters of such responses and relate them to the normal field of variability
- knows the influence of age, gender, environmental conditions and health status on these responses;
- is able to apply the aforementioned knowledge to the functional evaluation and prescription of physical exercise.
Course contents
Energy metabolism during exercise
Acute cardiovascular responses to exercise
Acute respiratory responses to exercise
Chronic neuromuscular and metabolic responses to training
Chronic cardiovascular and respiratory responses to training
Endocrine control and responses
Physiological effects of deconditioning
The effects of age, gender, the envinronment and health status on the aforementioned responses
These contents may be changed during the course
Readings/Bibliography
The following textbook is recomended:
Mcardle WD, Katch FI, Katch VL. Fisiologia Applicata allo Sport: Aspetti Energetici, Nutrizionali e Performance (Terza Edizione). Casa Editrice Ambrosiana/Zanichelli, 2018.
Scientific articles to be provided during the course
Teaching methods
Traditional lectures
Lab practicals
Discussions of scientific articles
On request, tutorials to be privately arranged with the lecturers
Assessment methods
Oral Examination
Teaching tools
Virtual Learning Environment platform
Laboratories at Record Sport University Centre in Bologna
Office hours
See the website of Samuele Maria Marcora
See the website of Alessandro Piras