Intermediate Exercise Physiology

Fall, 2009

This semester course returns to the theory content as we have developed the laboratory content of Sports Physiology, and we are also working on a new laboratory course to be scheduled in the Fall along side PEP426 starting Fall 2011.

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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, with added detail on cardiovascular and pulmonary adaptations to exercise.

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. 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!  Conversely, applying effort in this course will allow you to reap rewards that will equip you with knowledge and skills that will escalate your credibility as a personal trainer, or post graduate candidate in exercise physiology, physical therapy, cardiac rehabilitation, or medicine.