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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

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 ML H

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Sep 8, 2020

Unfortunately I need to drop the course. It has been 10 days since I signed up and I am unable to find the "drop course" button as described on the Coursera website.

By Lara T

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Mar 29, 2020

Very nicely lectured mini-series teaching concepts immediately helpful in choosing my training strategy. I'll be sure to try to influence everyone I know to exercise!

By RK S

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Aug 29, 2019

The course is designed so well and gives you a thorough knowledge of how exercise affects the human body. A complete guide to enhance your wit on Science of exercise.

By Chinedu V

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Nov 4, 2017

This course went beyond my expectation to be honest, I got more than I would have imagined from the outside, like my mom will always say, "It's better seen than told"

By Carlos C M

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May 4, 2020

Great course. Prof. Mazzeo and the University of Boulder Colorado made an excellent job with this course, the information, the structure of the course it is superb!

By Diep H

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Jun 25, 2019

It's a well structured course and concise. All the basic concepts is outlined with examples and graphs. There's a lot of learning so you'll need time and dedication.

By Stephney S

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Oct 1, 2020

The course was well organized and relatively comprehensive for a 4-week course. Professor Mazzeo was very articulate, knowledgable and I enjoyed his video lectures.

By Hector C

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Aug 10, 2020

I liked this course, it has a lot of science but is very well explained by the Robert Mazzeo, Ph.D. I learnt how to train better and keep my hobbie despite the age.

By Mary E

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Aug 1, 2020

I enjoyed this course immensely. Dr. Mazzeo's videos very informative. I learned a lot and hope to continually improve my knowledge of nutrition and the human body.

By Walter M Q

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Jun 20, 2020

Is a great course, it has very complete and deep info for you to learn what's needed and more, it has some online outdated tools, but still I recommend this course!

By Tomas L T

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Aug 20, 2021

Great introductory course on the benefits of exercise. It delivers what you need to know to motivate you or others to take fitness as an investment on themselves.

By Kayra K

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Jun 26, 2021

Teacher was very clear and covered all the key points, along with involving important smaller details that made me that one bit more clear upon each topic covered.

By MUHAMMED E A T

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May 14, 2021

it was very helpful and interesting course the teacher has given lots of important information in a simple way which was so useful to understand the topics easily

By Pavel G

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Nov 14, 2021

Great course. Some of biochemistry, which I really wanted to know. Exactly of my level of competence. I would recommend to make graphs more readable and modern.

By David M S M

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Aug 3, 2020

Many thanks for the teacher. The material was very clear and very interesting. I recommend this course to anyone interested in sport and how it affects the body.

By Miguel A S G

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Feb 26, 2019

Great course, the best one so far of all of the ones I've taken from coursera in relation with exercise and nutrition sections. Very clear, detailed and concise.

By H H

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May 20, 2021

Very interesting course but I did not receive my certificate till now though I have passed all components It has been now more than 2 months!! Any one can help?

By Francisco d l P

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Sep 15, 2020

I'm very pleased with this course. It has a human sensitivity to apply the scientific knowledge to daily and practical life. It''s worth what I've paid for it.

By Daniel M

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Apr 29, 2019

Good balance of entertaining presentations with good educational content. Very enjoyable course that has immediately applicable practical information/practices.

By Karan N S

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Jun 4, 2020

It helped me to understand lot of things based on science it really helped me to learn about many things in science . So it is very good experience to obtain .

By Tracy W

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Apr 22, 2020

The class was extremely interesting and well organized. Each section could almost be its own class. I hope more sports related classes are added in the future.

By Carmen C

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Jan 19, 2018

Easy to follow along, with great explanations about the underlying mechanisms at work during exercise. If you ever needed motivation to hit the gym this is it.

By J C

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Jan 14, 2021

Very good course. I appreciated and understood more what exercise can do for us. Exercise IS medicine. Thank you for having the option to offer this for free!

By g. s

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Nov 21, 2020

Excellent course. Clear presentation and explanations, accompanied by useful diagrams and statistics. Appreciated the frequent reiterations of lessons learnt.

By Viswanatha C H

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Sep 22, 2020

Its a simple exercise to ''energize'' yourself!

Good insights on the Science behind the benefits... Enjoyed both insights (science) and learning (benefits)!!!