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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Science of Exercise by University of Colorado Boulder

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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

MB

Sep 11, 2020

It is a very great course. This course taught me many great things about the human body like how the body responses to exercise and nutrition. What, when, how we should do exercise and take nutrition.

NT

Apr 14, 2020

Love everything about this course. Nice module. Professor is really nice. However, I need to learn further about weight training (Pros, cons , etc). Looking forward to attend in weight training class.

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By Abdulaziz R

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Apr 29, 2020

i influenced by new and fresh information that is help me out to go further in this beautiful filed by sharing the idea which is based on evidence to the other , i'm highly recommended it

By Roberto C

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Aug 5, 2020

Great course to amplify your knowledge aboute exercise and its metabolic pathways, effects of exercise in corporal sistems and the role of exercise in non communicable chronic diseases .

By Paul K

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May 28, 2020

I truly enjoyed the Science of Exercise course. This was a great supplement to my current studies and readings preparing for the NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist Exam.

By Lourdes L G

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Oct 24, 2017

Excellent course!

It gives us a good overview of everything a person without medical background needs to know about the advantages and disadvantages that exercise can bring to your body.

By Jez N

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Jun 19, 2020

Love that it involves the biochemistry and physiology of exercise. Learned the importance of an active healthy lifestyle that I can impart with my patients and apply to myself as well.

By Guilherme O G

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Mar 1, 2021

Great course, for sure the best course I have ever had, the professor is very clear explaining the classes, I had no trouble understanding even though I'm not a native English speaker

By PRINCE A

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Oct 29, 2020

Taking this course wasn't a mistake, I really appreciate everything about the course. Can't wait to put what I've learned into practice and also share with others. Great work done !!!

By Marina B N

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Jul 28, 2020

I really loved this course, it has really good information and it makes it really easy for you to understand difficult concepts and to understand our own body while we are exercising.

By Sehresh M

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Jun 19, 2020

It was an excellent experience and I have learned a lot. It helped me to understand my body even better, especially since I am regularly exercising as well. I can highly recommend it.

By Vielka M

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May 19, 2020

Es un curso interesante en el que se aprende mucho acerca de la adaptación del cuerpo al ejercicio y diferentes mecanismos de obtención de energía, entre otros temas de mucho interés.

By Ricardo B S

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Aug 23, 2022

Curso muito completo sobre fisiologia do exercício físico e saúde .

Recomendo a todos os profissionais de educação física e demias pessoas que gostam de se aprofundar sobre o assunto.

By Tejas A C

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Feb 8, 2021

I would recommend people to take up this course as it tells a lot about your body and health. I am sure I have been immensely benefited from this course, there's no two way about it.

By Sufiyan K

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Apr 15, 2021

This is the perfect beginner course if you wish to know the mechanisms of the human body. The instructor is pretty well versed with the concepts. Great job Sir, and Coursera aswell.

By mahek

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Aug 23, 2021

A fantastic course consisting of relevant course material in a concise and well-explained manner. If you are interested in exercise science and or nutrition, I recommend trying it.

By Kim B

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May 7, 2020

I really enjoyed this course, it was very educational and very interesting! I learned a great deal and after this I feel encouraged to learn more about exercise and the human body.

By Gautam R

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May 19, 2020

This is very good course about exercise and sport science. A must for beginners and for those who all want to get information about this topic and is interested in sports science

By Ebtehal A M

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Aug 18, 2019

My words will not be enough to describe how the course was efficient and push my knowledge forward so I highly recommend this course for anyone who interested in sports nutrition.

By Pallavi M

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Jun 15, 2023

The course was very informative. The concept were explained in easy language.

The final assessment though was a challenge , it was fun too.It made the concept

more Clear.

Thank You

By Nhan T

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Jun 22, 2021

An incredibly-detailed course ! I wasn't expecting to get my eyes opened this up about so many knowledge about science of exercise. Can't wait to put it into my training routine.

By onkar S

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Apr 29, 2021

Very well designed course, can motivate the learner to start and maintain exercise routine. As said by Robert Mazzeo - Go out and spread the word about many benefits of exercise.

By Emelina K V

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May 15, 2020

It is really great course, that gives you a basic knowlege about sport physiology. Thanks a lot for education, it was accessible even for person who dont speak English very good.

By Marine R

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Jun 20, 2019

It was very clear and interesting! Each topics were easy to understand thanks to real life exemples. I'm glad I did the physiology class first tho, it really help with the basics

By Nattanicha T

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Jul 14, 2020

The course is great.

It's easy to understand, the graphs, photos are easy to understand.

I recommend to those who want to start to study about sports science or want to review it.

By Abood Z

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Jun 25, 2022

I learned a lot about the science of exercise, the dangers of steroids, fighting incurable diseases, and the effect of exercise on the human body. It was a really great session

By Ivanna J G A B

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Jun 1, 2020

Curso verdaderamente completo! Ya que te explica todo desde lo más básico a los más complejo; haciendome entender como es la ciencia del ejercicio! Excelente, excelente ponente