This course will provide an advanced understanding of cardiovascular and muscle physiology in relation to exercise, fitness and health through lectures, readings, and labs. Students will investigate the effect of lifestyle choices, aging, environment (temperature and microgravity), and disease on human physiology. Students will conduct a comprehensive review of literature on a relevant topic of their choice.
Corequisites:
Exercise Physiology I (KPE‑318) Year 4 standing in the honors or B.Kin program
Exercise Physiology I
KPE‑318
This course will study the physiological response of the body’s systems to a bout of exercise and the adaptations that occur to these systems with training. Systems studied include the energy producing systems, as well as the muscular, pulmonary, neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, skeletal and immune systems. This course will emphasize how these physiological systems are integrated together to maintain the body’s internal environment in response to the stress of the exercise. The course includes a weekly two-hour lab. Materials fee applies.