Sport's Physiology

Recommended Prerequisites

Master degree in Medicine or Dental Medicine. Basic computer skills. Portuguese and English.

Teaching Methods

There are theorical lessons in the classroom, and teaching  in groups (depending on the number of students), performing tasks or solving problems or cases or doing tests for the energetic pathways.

Learning Outcomes

The student must understand the influence of exercise on the Physiology and the physiological limitations to exercise. He must understand the bases of training and prescription of exercise. In the end he must  know how to make and interpret the energetic pathways tests.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction.

2. Energy pathways.

3. Post-exercise recovery.

5. Skeletal muscle - structure and function. Motor units. Satellite cells.

6. Respiratory system and adaptation to exercise.

7. Cardiocirculatory system and adaptation to exercise.

8. Hematological and immunological modifications caused by exercise.

9. Exercise and the endocrine system.

10. Exercise and sensitivities. Endogenous analgesic system and exercise; descending and segmental (gate theory) pathways. Referred pain. Types of pain; hyperalgesia; allodynia.

11. Motility and exercise and training.

12. Exercise and thermoregulation.

13. Pathophysiology of fatigue. Its prevention and treatment.

14. Physical performance at altitude.

15. Diving and physical ability. Snorkeling.

16. Laboratory and field tests for evaluation of the energetic pathways.

17. Training and physiological adaptations. Training types. Prescription of physical exercise.

Head Lecturer(s)

Amândio Manuel Cupido Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 10.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 10.0%
Exam: 80.0%

Bibliography

1) Exercise Physiology, G. A. Brooks, Th. D. Fahey & K. M. Baldwin, McGraw-Hill
2) Exercise Physiology- Energy, Nutrition, & Human Performance, W. D. McArdle, F. I. Katch & V. L. Katch, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
3) Sport and exercise physiology testing guidelines. BASES Guide. 2 volumes. Winter et al. Editors, Routledge.
4) Physiological Assessment of Human Fitness. PJ Maud & C Foster ed. Human Kinetics.
5) ACSM´s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription. 9th edition, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2014.
6) ACSM´s Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, 7th edition, J. K. Ehrman et al. editors, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2014.
7) Biochemistry of Exercise & Training, R. Maughan, M. Gleeson & P. L. Greenhaff, published by Oxford University Press.
Texts and slides of the curricular unity