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Science of Exercise

Learners who complete Science of Exercise will have an improved physiological understanding of how your body responds to exercise, and will be able to identify behaviors, choices, and environments that impact your health and training. You will explore a number of significant adjustments required by your body in order to properly respond to the physical stress of exercise, including changes in carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism, nutritional considerations, causes of muscle soreness & fatigue, and the effectiveness and dangers of performance enhancing drugs. Active learning assessments will challenge you to apply this new knowledge via nutrition logs, heart rate monitoring, calculations of your total daily caloric expenditure and body mass index (BMI). Finally, learners will examine the scientific evidence for the health benefits of exercise including the prevention and treatment of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity (weight loss), depression, and dementia.

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Rating 4.8★ based on 280 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Starts Jul 3 (46 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera
Instructor Robert Mazzeo, Ph.D.
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Language English
Subjects Science
Tags Life Sciences Medicine And Healthcare Personal Development Basic Science

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I have leaned so many things in this course that I didn't know about.

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The course is well structured but at some point it gets very repetitive and it feels it put more stress on certain activities like endurance training.

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This may not be possible given the way Coursera is designed and what we are paying for the course, but I really missed the chance to evaluate these discussions with the teacher.Thanks!Amy Amazing course -- It helps me a lot to learn about human body and exercise mechanism.

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Careers

An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile.

Adjunct Professor of Exercise $21k

Exercise Physiologist 1 $41k

Nurse/Exercise Physiologist $46k

All positions including Management Trainee $51k

Group Exercise $51k

Temporary Exercise Specialist $57k

Training and Exercise Specialist $57k

Aircraft Inspector including NDT $74k

Master Exercise Planner $75k

Associate Exercise Physiologist $78k

Exercise Developer $83k

Principal Exercise Physiologist $125k

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Rating 4.8★ based on 280 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Starts Jul 3 (46 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera
Instructor Robert Mazzeo, Ph.D.
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Science
Tags Life Sciences Medicine And Healthcare Personal Development Basic Science

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