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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

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.

BO

Oct 3, 2020

An exceptionally great course. I enjoyed every bit of it. Thanks to the organizers for making these as easy and simple as possible. Now I can live a more healthy lifestyle with the principles learned!

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By Ruth K

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May 28, 2020

I am a law student who is really into fitness which is why I chose to do this course. It helped me so much and I can't wait to share all this information. Thank you, professor!

By Gregory G

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Apr 11, 2019

Short and sweet course giving an amazing overview of exercise and the science behind it. Could be useful to anyone that want to learn about the science behind healthier living!

By Karim h m

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Sep 9, 2017

great course and so valuable information i hope that professor robert mazzeo make more courses for us so we can learn from his experience in exercise of science more .. thank u

By Zeki Ç

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May 26, 2023

I know everybody can workout but no one can realize that whats details underlying mechanism responsible for that.So l had a magnificent knowledge with this course.Thank you.

By Prathiksha s

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May 27, 2020

It was Beautiful journey in learn science of excercise. I came to know many new things about our body,. This course helped me to understand more about physiology of excercise.

By Cita T A

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May 11, 2020

A great course in general and Excellent for beginners !

Very well structured and in my opinion very well presented.

Thanks for motivating me enough to learn a totally new thing.

By Manawar S

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Jun 20, 2021

Truly amazing course. Got to learn so much and I fell everything was absolutely essential for anyone wants to learn of about the basic principles and science behind exercise.

By TAKAHITO H

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Feb 17, 2021

I enjoyed learning this course very much. Great all-round course which provides you with fundamental ideas and concepts behind our body functions when we engage in exercises.

By Darshana B

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Jan 10, 2021

Excellent course. You can start learning from basics of metabolism to exercise types how they affect your health, how the body adapts and involved principles and mechanisms.

By Eduardo M S M

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Aug 14, 2020

Professor sensacional com uma excelente didática e bastante conhecimento passado. Entender a fisiologia do exercício se torna fácil com um excelente profissional lecionando.

By ELENA P

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Jul 14, 2022

Thank you for this amazing course. I am so grateful for all this knowledge that will improve not only my life but will help me improve the life of people surrounding me.

By Luis O L W

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Aug 6, 2021

Excellent! Really enjoyed taking part of this MOOC. It gets very technical at a certain point, but wrap-ups and explanations are clear and conclusive. Highly recommended.

By Synthia H

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Sep 27, 2020

This is a very helpful course. It explained how important is exercise in every day life and it shows all the scientific support. I really enjoyed it and I learned a lot.

By Vanessa N C

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Aug 16, 2020

Excellent course! I am a lawyer, so I had no previous knowledge about this topic, and still I could understand and learn everything. I am very satisfied with the results.

By Adriana P S M

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Jun 16, 2020

In my opinion, this course contains very informative modules with an excellent focus; I consider that I have learned enough and I feel capable of taking an advanced level.

By giulia f

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Apr 21, 2020

Being an athlete I truly enjoyed learning about the mechanisms behind Physical Activity, and now I have knowledge that is worth sharing with people not physically active.

By Daniel M R

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Apr 20, 2020

I learnt more in this course than 5 years in university. Easy to understand and really helpful.I would repeat it every time I forget things related to Physiology of Sport

By 최주안

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Feb 14, 2022

This helped me learn more about how exercise affect the human body and why exercise is important. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn this wonderful course!

By VYCTTOR M D M A D S

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Apr 25, 2021

Amazing experience! The professor, Robert Mazzeo, teach with a good didatic, bring the main aspects about the science of exercise, in a very good approach to begginers!

By Avichal S

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Jun 10, 2020

Most practical day to day course I've done ever. This is huge compliment. I'm including even offline course/internet data. Great course. Must do for fitness enthusiast.

By Rajiv K P

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Sep 18, 2020

Simplifies the concepts to layman level without losing the scientific temperament.

All relevant subjects covered comprehensively with supporting scientific references.

By Surendra M

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Jun 19, 2020

It is a best course for me specially because of its flexible design a student can admit in the course and can learn number of things with very deep and specific thing.

By Esha K

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May 26, 2020

Absolutely fantastic course!! A must do for everyone who wants to be in shape and healthy. Really well-taught. I learned a lot and am very grateful for it! Thank you!!

By VANDANA C T

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May 7, 2021

Great for a beginner.Came to learn a lot about the ongoing functions and adaptations in the body. Was helpful to start off a deeper learning into health and exercise.

By Deepika m

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Sep 28, 2020

Extremely informative. The language was a issue at first, but it was easy to adapt it as one goes on with the course. Had a very good experience. Highly recommend.