Overall objectives:

1 - The program aims to provide students with a training enabling them to understand the acute and chronic effects of exposure to exercise. More specifically, the discipline aims the study of the form by which organic structures and functions are changed and the homeostasis affected in response both to bouts of exercise or habitual physical activity. The perspectives underlying the physiology of exercise of, on the one hand raise the physical performance and on the other hand change components of physiological fitness related to health will also be the subject of differentiated analysis. Because the involvement in which is carried out the exercise has a large impact on performance, this component of environmental physiology also incorporate the body of knowledge required of learners. It is also intended that the student acquires the capacity to evaluate and interpret data related to the work produced during the exercise, as well as understand the practical applicability of the same.

Syllabus:

0 - To meet the objectives described above, the program of physiology of exercise will include, among others, the following contents:
1 - Metabolism and bioenergetics; use of different energy systems in effort;
2 - Hormonal adjustments during exercise;
3 - Pulmonary adaptations to physical activity, ventilatory function, lung volumes and capacities, maximum oxygen consumption, anaerobic threshold, respiratory quotient;
4 - Cardiovascular adaptations to physical activity, cardiac muscle function, cardiac output, heart rate, ejection fraction, blood pressure;
5 - Muscular adaptations, nervous, muscular and mechanical factors, types of manifestation of strength, forms of neuromuscular adaptation, different types of fatigue;
6 - Environmental influence on the physical performance of the practitioners;
7 - Ergometry, determination of the maximum oxygen consumption, laboratory and field tests, direct and indirect protocols, assessment of anaerobic capacity, evaluation of physiological parameters during effort.

Literature/Sources:

Duffield, R. et al , 2004 , Accuracy and reliability of a Cosmed K4b2 portable gas analysis system , Journal of Science of Medicine & Sport
Farrel, P., Joyner, M., Caiozzo, V , 2012 , ACSM's Advanced Exercise Physiology. Second edition , Lipincot Wiliams & Wilkins
Robergs, R. and Burnett, A. , 2003 , Methods used to process data from indirect calorimetry and their application to VO2max , Journal of Exercise Physiology
Vander, A., Sherman, J., Luciano, D. , 1994 , Human Physiology. Sixth edition , Mcgraw-Hill
Kenney, W., Wilmore, j., Costill, D. , 2015 , Physiology of Sport and Exercise. Sixth Edition , Human Kinetics

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
The programmatic contents are taught in theoretical, theoretical-practical and laboratory practice sessions. To the students is encouraged its interventive ability and clarified the doubts raised. For the evaluation of theoretical and theoretical-practical content mastery it is made a written test (50 %). The systematic work of study and research conducted by students concerning the different areas proposed in the field of exercise physiology is evaluated through the presentation in plenary for the remaining class (50 %). In this work is encouraged not only the mastery of contents but also the capacity of synthesis, oral communication and domain of techniques and methodologies related, as well as appropriate computing tools. The laboratory practice in the field of evaluation of physical fitness and various physiological parameters in exercise is also strongly stimulated.