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Course Details

EXSC225 - Physiological Bases of Exercise

Year

2024

Credit points

10

Campus offering

• Brisbane
• Blacktown
• Melbourne
• Strathfield

Prerequisites

• BIOL121 Human Biological Science 1
• BIOL124 Human Body in Health and Disease 1
• BIOL125 Human Biology 1

Incompatible

• EXSC198 Physiological Bases of Exercise

Teaching organisation

150 hours of focused learning

Unit rationale, description and aim

An understanding of the human body's response to exercise and adaptation to exercise training is required for the application of the science of exercise for health, fitness and sports performance.

Learning outcomes

• LO1: Describe and compare the bioenergetics of energy production and utilization
• LO2: Describe the function, regulation and interaction of physiological systems relating to exercise
• LO3: Describe the individual and integrated physiological responses and adaptations to acute exercise
• LO4: Operate, calibrate and measure work/power and physiological responses on different ergometers
• LO5: Perform and interpret exercise tests

Content

• Energy expenditure and oxygen consumption
• Enzymes, bioenergetics and metabolic pathways in muscle physiology
• Respiratory regulation during exercise
• Cardiovascular regulation during exercise
• Physiological (acute) responses to aerobic and anerobic exercise
• Health screening/risk stratification
• Ergometry, calibration, measurement of work and power, and units of measure
• Exercise testing of energy expenditure, oxygen consumption and aerobic power
• Exercise testing of anaerobic power

Learning and teaching strategy and rationale

The learning and teaching strategies of this unit are designed to allow students to meet the aims, learning outcomes of the unit, graduate attributes of the University and professional accreditation standards.

Assessment strategy and rationale

In order to best enable students to achieve unit learning outcomes and develop graduate attributes, standards-based assessment is utilised, consistent with University assessment requirements.

Overview of assessments

• Essay task: 30%
• Laboratory report: 20%
• Final examination: 50%
• Competency practical skills test: HURDLE

Representative texts and references

• American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) (2013). Health-Related Physical Fitness Assessment Manual (4th ed.). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) (2014). Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams
• Australian Institute of Sport, Tanner, R and Gore, C (2013) Physiological tests for elite athletes (2nd ed.). Champaign: Human Kinetics.
• Coombes and Skinner (2014). ESSA student manual for health, exercise and sport assessment. Mosby and ESSA.
• McArdle, W.D., Katch, F.I., & Katch, V.L. (2014). Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition and Human Performance (8th ed.). Baltimore: Lippincott William and Wilkins.
• Nieman, D.C. (2007). Exercise Testing and Prescription: A Health Related Approach (6th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.