Intermediate Exercise Physiology

Fall, 2008

This semester is the first offering of this course based on my restructuring of both this class and then Sports Physiology (PEP478).  From now on, these two classes will complement each other, where 426 is the initial content of exercise physiology, followed by a continuation of content in Sports Physiology.

This restructuring has resulted from a combination of positive student feedback regarding the combined lecture and laboratory content of Sport Physiology, with the faculty intent to infuse more laboratory instruction into how we teach exercise physiology within the undergraduate curriculum.  Now that we have our new teaching laboratory, we can infuse more laboratory instruction into how we teach many courses in Exercise Science.  Faculty have also desired to complement classroom instruction with laboratory experiences and training on a topic by topic basis.  In other words, we are now able to teach content in exercise physiology and allow for laboratory experiences on specific topics within the class curriculum.  The PEP426-478 series therefore allows us to now essentially spread the teaching of exercise physiology across two semesters, scheduling key laboratory sessions throughout to reinforce classroom lecture content, while at the same time promoting increased opportunities for you to improve your training in the many skills required to be an effective exercise physiologist/personal trainer.

At this time I can only recommend to you that you invest considerable time and energy into preparing for each lab session, understanding all that you are required to do in each lab session, and do the best job you can in completing the laboratory report.  DO not rely on others to do the work for you, and do not use other peoples work to complete your lab report.  To do so, even though it is tempting to ease your workload by relying on other, only undermines the quality of your own education.  You become the big loser in the long run.

Dr. Robergs

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This course is structured to provide content on the neuromuscular and metabolic determinants of exercise performance and adaptations to exercise training.

This class sequence with Sports Physiology is probably one of the toughest exercise physiology courses within the USA.  This is not a fact I raise to brag, but one that I want you to know so that you are aware that you:

1. need to read the textbook,

2. follow lectures notes,

3. attend lectures to get the added information about each slide that I provide through verbal explanation and additional fact sharing, 

4. attend all laboratory sessions, as well as follow-up lecture explanations of how to process and interpret data, and

5. perhaps even do some added library/internet research and reading on your own.

My philosophy is that you are attending university to learn, and I expect all students of this class to be motivated.  I go out of my way to support your learning through the web-based lecture support, so if you do not study, perform poorly, and deserve to fail, you will fail!