Exercise Prescription

Recommended Prerequisites

na

Teaching Methods

The curricular unit consists of theoretical and theoretical and practical sessions. Students will have the opportunity to conduct fitness assessments in practical lessons using the required laboratory equipment.

Learning Outcomes

It is intended that students master a set of contents that enable them to understand the basic principles of exercise assessment and prescription tailored to special populations. This will allow them to optimize and individualize physical exercise with a view to obtaining a better physical condition and higher health levels, thus contributing to a better protection of risk factors and an inevitable improvement of the quality of life.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Health, risk assessment and safety in exercise prescription:

• Benefits and risks associated with physical activity;

• Health screening and risk stratification.

Physical Tests:

• The pre-exercise evaluations;

• Physical fitness tests adjusted to health status and their interpretation;

• Clinical Exercise Testing;

• Interpretation of data produced by physical tests.

Exercise Prescription:

• General principles of exercise prescription.

Exercise prescription for the diseased population:

• Cardiac patients and other medical conditions that influence exercise prescription.

Head Lecturer(s)

Carlos Alberto Fontes Ribeiro

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Project work: 100.0%

Bibliography

American College of Sport Medicine – Guidelines For Exercise Testing And Prescripton (2006) Lippincott Williams &Wilkins

Vivian H. Heyward (2002) Advanced Fitness Assessment And Exercise Prescription, Human Kinetics.

Jonathan K. Ehrman, Paul M. Gordon, Paul S. Visich and Steven J. Keteyian (2003) Clinical Exercise Physiology, Human Kinetics.

Roger W. Earleand Thomas R. Baechle (2004) NSCA’S Essentials of Personal Training, Human Kinetics.