The course is structured as an Intensive course with a condensed blended teaching period of 3 weeks (distance face-to-face and online resources from 7 to 25 October 2024) and condensed e-learning, distance tutoring, and individual study of 4 weeks, including examination (from 28 October to 19 November 2024).
Multidisciplinary components
- Applied Biology (BIO/13, 2 ECTS)
- Physiology (BIO/09, 6 ECTS)
- Sports Medicine (MED/09, 5 ECTS)
- Applied Medical Sciences (MED/50, 2 ECTS)
- Foreign language (L-LIN/02, 0 ECTS)
Content of the course
- Biomechanics and motion analysis
- Muscle strength assessment and testing
- Methods of fitness assessment
- Principles of Fitness/Wellness: health benefits of strength and endurance training;
- Fitness assessment, and exercise testing and prescription
- The neural control of force
- Metabolic effects of exercise protocols: theoretical and practical issues
- Physical activity, public health, and fitness: an approach from the point of view of epidemiology
- Health and safety in sport and PA
- Cardiovascular, respiratory and muscle-skeletal fitness in health prevention for children, adults and elderly
- Cardiorespiratory regulation and adaptations with regard to health enhancing physical activity in aerobic performance
- Neuroendocrine adaptation in response to physical exercise
- Metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes
- Human nutrition in health, diseases, development and aging: theoretical and practical applications
- Nutrition and metabolism in health and exercise
- Medical risks of substance abuse
- Basic human genetics: genetic variability and mutations, simple and complex trait inheritance, from gene to phenotype
- Genetic variability in health and diseases and gene-environment interactions in relation to movement
- Molecular adaptation to health-enhancing physical activity
- “Omics” in training adaptation
Additional tools: Introduction to descriptive statistics; English Academic Writing; Italian for foreign students.
Books
Study material (mainly PDF files of the literature and monography) and virtual rooms for discussions between students and students and staff, is made available on the e-learn platform of Foro Italico University.
