Physical Exercise Prescription

Recommended Prerequisites

General knowledge.

Teaching Methods

Expository teaching.

Expository teaching with cases. Problems oriented based learning.

Learning Outcomes

The student should understand the reasons for a particular prescription of exercise, knowing their limitations, advantages and disadvantages. At the end of the course the student should know how to make a prescription of exercise for the diseases and risk factors described throughout the semester.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Physical Activity and Health. Risk stratification of metabolic and cardiovascular disease. Need of counseling or medical supervision. Brief notions of Exercise Physiology. Clinical prior assessment. Physical tests. General rules of exercise prescription. Exercise prescription for special situations: overweight and obesity; dyslipidemias; atherosclerosis; heart disease; hypertension; ischemic diseases of the extremities (intermittent claudication); respiratory diseases; diabetes mellitus type 1 and type 2; metabolic syndrome; osteoporosis; arthrosis; exercise prescription in children, adolescents, pregnants and elderlies; Medications and exercise prescription; doping; rrugs of abuse.

Head Lecturer(s)

Carlos Alberto Fontes Ribeiro

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 30.0%
Exam: 70.0%

Bibliography

ACSM´s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription. 9th edition, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2014

ACSM´s Exercise Management for Persons with Chronic Diseases and Disabilities, 2nd edition, J. L. Durstine & G. E. Moore, Human Kinetics, 2003.

ACSM´s Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, 7th edition, J. K. Ehrman et al. editores, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2014.

Physiology of Sport and Exercise, de J. H. Wilmore & D. L. Costill, Human Kinetics.            

Fox’ Physiological Basis for Exercise and Sport, M. L. Foss & S. J. Keteyian, McGraw-Hill.

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