HL40578: Integrative exercise physiology
[Page last updated: 19 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department for Health |
| Credits: | 7.5 [equivalent to 15 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 150 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CWRI 30%, EXCB 70% |
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| Requisites: | Before taking this module you must take HL30556 OR take HL30557 |
| Learning Outcomes: |
Apply systematic knowledge to critically assess and resolve current problems related to health-related and sport performance-related issues in exercise physiology Appraise the mechanisms involved in health-related and sport performance-related adaptations to exercise and physical activity Critically evaluate scientific literature to solve known or unknown problems related to adaptation to exercise. Discuss gene-environment interaction in terms of understanding how an individual's environment and genotype influence the adaptive responses to exercise and physical activity Evaluate the role of bespoke and individualised exercise prescription for health-related and sport performance-related adaptations Integrate knowledge acquired during the unit and in previous and parallel units to address contemporary issues related to adaptation to exercise and physical activity |
| Aims: | To examine acute responses and chronic adaptations to exercise and physical activity at all levels (i.e. from changes at the whole-body level through to cellular and molecular adaptations) and to understand the impact of such adaptations on health and sport performance. |
| Learning outcomes: | 1. Appraise the mechanisms involved in health-related and sport performance-related adaptations to exercise and physical activity
2. Discuss gene-environment interaction in terms of understanding how an individual's environment and genotype influence the adaptive responses to exercise and physical activity
3. Evaluate the role of bespoke and individualised exercise prescription for health-related and sport performance-related adaptations
4. Apply systematic knowledge to critically assess and resolve current problems related to health-related and sport performance-related issues in exercise physiology
5. Integrate knowledge acquired during the unit and in previous and parallel units to address contemporary issues related to adaptation to exercise and physical activity
6. Critically evaluate scientific literature to solve known or unknown problems related to adaptation to exercise. |
| Skills: | Knowledge and understanding - Taught, Facilitated and Assessed
Intellectual - Facilitated and Assessed
Professional/Practical - Taught and Facilitated
Communication - Facilitated and Assessed
Numeracy - Facilitated
Data acquisition, handling, analysis -Taught and Facilitated
Information technology - Facilitated
Problem solving - Facilitated and Assessed
Working independently - Facilitated and Assessed
Working as part of a group - Facilitated |
| Content: | This unit will expose students to an integrative approach for understanding the impact of exercise and physical activity on the human body (from molecular and cellular adaptations to whole body adaptions). This unit has a particular focus on how these adaptations relate to sport performance and human health.
The students will explore: the concepts of genetic predisposition to sport performance; the gene-environment interactions and how our individual environment can influence human health and sport performance; whole-body adaptation (e.g., muscle distribution and mass, nutrient absorption, energy storage and depletion), cellular and molecular adaptation (e.g., protein and enzyme expression); physical inactivity and loss of adaptation or maladaptation (bed rest, immobilisation, sedentarism); new integrative methodologies and approaches to understand tissues' crosstalk and adaptation to exercise and physical activity. |
| Course availability: |
HL40578 is Optional (DEU) on the following courses:Department for Health
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