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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.

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 Ankush m k

Jul 25, 2020

Very helpful to get a general idea of the importance of exercise, nutrition and some basic concepts regarding changes in the body with respect to the workout.

By Ripjeet S R

May 23, 2020

Very well tailored course,with great insight about the various aspects involved in exercise. A very good job by the course instructor...keep up the good work.

By Fernando I H P

Feb 12, 2019

MUY COMPLETO, absolutamente recomendado. Aunque no se bien inglés, me estoy apoyando con el traductor de google; sin embargo, he comprendido mucha información

By María C M B

Dec 1, 2020

Excelente curso, es muy concreto con los temas y aporta conocimiento suficiente para entender diversos factores que entran en juego al momento de ejercitarse

By Mahesh M

Aug 25, 2020

Superb course if you are fitness freek and want to know the science behind it. I personally learned a lot and hence recommended this course to my colleagues.

By Gregory W

Oct 13, 2021

awesome course, well explained and highly practical both for personal development, academic reasons, and for just simple good god honesty scientific advice.

By Dipanshu A

Jul 1, 2021

Delivers much more than I ever exercised. It is highly detailed with illustrations, research reviews and much more, and yet is taught at a comfortable pace.

By Lee X Y

Jun 25, 2021

It was overall an enjoyable course that helped me to understand better in terms of how regular exercise helps to improve the health status of an individual.

By Subramanyam N

Feb 15, 2021

It is one of the best courses for someone who is interested in knowing about body mechanics, basics of exercise, fundamental principles of exercise science.

By 赵博威

Feb 27, 2020

This lesson is very excellent. I learned from it what happens in our bodies when we exercise and the benefits of exercise on our physical and mental health.

By Luis E G y G

Apr 1, 2021

Great course, excellent content, it covers all the basic topics about exercise science, instructor is great, the content is precise and greatly displayed.

By Jennifer R

Sep 17, 2020

This was an interesting and very informative course. I learned a lot about exercise and its many benefits to the body; mentally and physically. Thank you!

By Андрей Л

May 7, 2020

a good amount of knowledge in a fairly compact course, I liked it.

I liked to correlate my knowledge in Russian with this knowledge in English. Thank you.

By Asia T

Sep 19, 2021

I enjoy following this course. Deserve perhaps one full week , about post exercise , recovering, stretching, nutrition and exercise and aging adaptation

By Donald Z

Jan 13, 2021

This course helped me a lot.I am taking a step to start my fitness business and hopefully my clients will benefit from my scientific approach to fitness.

By Sushrut G

Aug 17, 2021

Clear concepts, simple language, very knowledgable mentors, one of the best courses, with excellent guidance from team support members and peer feedback

By Aldo I R A

Jun 21, 2020

I learnt the various mechanisms that happens in the body when we exercise. There is no doubt that this is one of the greatest courses I have ever taken.

By SYAM S

Jun 7, 2020

It was an awesome experience with this course, learned so many things such as homeostasis and calorimetry. Thanks to coursera and University of Colorado

By Karingula C d

May 13, 2021

ITS GREAT OPPURTUNITY TO ENROLL WORTHY COURSE. After the completion one may feel get out there and spread the word about the many benefits of exercise.

By Jessica B

Oct 23, 2020

very informative and the lecture started from the basics going to the energetics. in-depth and you really can correlate everything at the end of course

By Graziela H d S

May 30, 2020

This course gives us a good explanation of the Science of Exercise, which clarify a lot regarding how our body works and to increase our fitness level.

By AKARSH B

Sep 9, 2020

Dr. Robert Mazzeo has taught this course really well explaining every mechanism in the body with appropriate examples. I'm very happy with the course.

By Dr. R Y

May 26, 2020

This is very thrilling course I have learned a lot. Its is practical course and to know the science of exercise. Thanks professor

Robert Mazzeo, Ph.D.

By Vincent Q

Feb 20, 2019

Well structured and straightforward. I learned and implemented a lot of what I learned from this course in my everyday activities and life in general.

By Lisa J

Mar 3, 2019

explained a lot about how exercise effects the body and the different benefits that it contributes to the body from going to a sedentary lifestyle to