Exercise Prescription

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The course consists of theoretical sessions and theoretical practice sessions. Students have the opportunity to conduct fitness assessments in practical classes using the laboratory equipment necessary.

The evaluation consists of a project work where you are given several examples of types of special populations for the student to choose one of them and develop a prescribed schedule.

Learning Outcomes

It is intended that the student mastered a set of content to enable them to understand the basic principles of assessment and exercise prescription tailored to special populations, such as how to optimize and individualize exercise with a view to obtaining a better physical condition and levels higher health contributing to a better protection of risk factors and the inevitable improvement of quality of life.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Health risk assessment and safety in the exercise prescription.

• Benefits and risks associated with physical activity

• Health screening and risk stratification

Physical Tests

• The pre-exercise evaluations

• Tests of physical fitness adjusted health status and their Interpretation

• Clinical Exercise Testing

• Interpretation of data produced by physical tests

Exercise Prescription

• General principles of exercise prescription

Exercise prescription in the disease

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

Head Lecturer(s)

Amândio Manuel Cupido Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

American College of Sport Medicine – Guidelines For Exercise Testing And Prescripton (2009) 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.