This course mainly contributes to two objectives of the Degree in Sports Science:
- Plan, develop and evaluate processes of sports training and physical exercise, applying critically and properly, in an integrated way, knowledge specific to their specialty and cross-disciplinary
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge;
- Foster and promote the formation of healthy lifestyle habits through physical activity and sport among the population.
Semestral
- Conceptualization. Health benefits of regular physical activity
- Determinants and models of analysis and intervention leading to the adoption of healthy lifestyles
- Physical Activity adapted to special populations: cardiovascular diseases and metabolic diseases
- Health screening and physical and/or functional assessment tests by age group
- Measurement of human energy consumption. Metabolic calculations
- Anthropometry: fat folds, perimeters and circumferences
It is intended with this curricular unit that the students acquires knowledge and skills that allow them to:
- Recognize, in general, the importance of physical activity for health from a preventive point of view and« also some models used to motivate this practice;
- Know the main constraints of subjects with chronic non-communicable diseases, taking into account the specificity of each one;
- Acquire skills to assess, plan and prescribe exercise for normal or special populations, analyzed within the scope of this curricular unit;
- Relate and distinguish the exercise prescription taking into account the interaction of various metabolic factors.
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