HFPR-220 Exercise Physiology

Credits 4 / 4 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into ACRD-090, ACRD-091 or ACRD-092, completion of ELAP-110 with a minimum grade of 2.0, or successful completion of ACRD-080; HFPR-100 and BIOL-150 or HFPR-100, BIOL-151 and BIOL-152.
This course is designed to teach students about the role of physical activity, nutrition, and exercise as it relates to health and disease, and the acute and longer term effects of exercise stress on the human body systems. Through the practical application of these theoretical concepts, students will learn to safely and effectively formulate appropriate exercise presecriptions to adapt to a variety of different population types.

Course Outcomes
1. Describe the basic pathology of cardiovascular disease and its relevance to health and mortality 2. Identify risk factors for cardiovascular disease and their inner-relationship with other co-morbidities (such as metabolic & pulmonary diseases) and discuss their relationship with physical activity, physical fitness, and ACSM exercise guidelines for apparently healthy adults 3. Perform a proper health consultation, including lifestyle evaluation, client goal setting, risk factors identification and stratification, and recommendation for further testing and physician clearance 4. Apply principles of basic nutrition and caloric expenditure & balance, to a variety of goals and circumstances applicable to health and fitness 5. Explain the basic metabolic pathways of the macronutrients and each of their contributions to bioenergetics within body at rest and during exercise 6. Differentiate the acute and chronic responses of the various body systems (with emphasis on the cardiovascular, pulmonary, neural, endocrine, and skeletal) to rest and variable exercise conditions 7. Distinguish the main components of anaerobic and aerobic metabolism and apply conditioning principles to specialized exercise conditions 8. Select and conduct appropriate exercise testing using client health history and interview responses to address each category of physical fitness (i.e. body composition and resting measurements, cardiovascular health, muscular strength and endurance, and range of motion/flexibility) 9. Analyze the results of select exercise tests and apply them to create an individualized exercise program that addresses areas of concern while also achieving client goals using the FITT-VP principles.