Faculty of Business: Leisure, Sport and Tourism
Credit points: 6 cp

Subject level: Undergraduate

Result Type: Grade and marks

Handbook description

This subject examines the interactions between the bioenergetic, metabolic, neurological and hormonal aspects of human movement, muscular control and cardiorespiratory function and performance.

Subject objectives/outcomes

On successful completion of this subject students should be able to:

1. Identify and explain the bioenergetic and metabolic processes influencing human movement.
2. Apply knowledge of the neurological and hormonal control of human movement.
3. Describe the operation and interactions of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems under exercise conditions.
4. Discuss the adaptations to various exercises modalities in terms of energy production, optimal training and maximal performance.

Contribution to graduate profile

This subject is in the core of the BA Human Movement Studies and the BA Sport and Exercise Management programs and provides students with conceptual knowledge and skills related to the physiological bases of human movement. It focuses on the physiological aspects of human movement related to energy, work and efficiency.

Teaching and learning strategies

Teaching and learning strategies include formal lectures, demonstrations and laboratory exercises. Content for this subject will be supported by UTSOnline.

Content

• Exercise and sport physiology, acute physiological responses to exercise
• Limits of human performance
• Skeletal muscle and exercise: slow twitch and fast twitch fibres, muscle fibre recruitment, fibre type and sports performance
• Energy for human movement, bioenergetics, measuring energy metabolism during exercise, energy cost of specific activities
• Causes of fatigue
• Hormonal effects on metabolism
• Regulation of glucose and fat metabolism during exercise
• Cardiorespiratory function and performance
• Cardiovascular and respiratory responses to exercise
• Metabolic adaptations to training

Assessment

Mid Semester Examination (Individual)	35%
This addresses objective 1.
Laboratory Manual (Individual)	25%
This addresses objectives 1-4.
Final Exam (Individual)	40%
This addresses objectives 1-4.

Examinations will be conducted under University examination conditions, and hence thoroughly address concerns regarding secure assessment. The submission of the lab manual will be secure with the inclusion of individual raw data sheets, the inclusion of individual reflections on the results received, a statement of independent work on the cover sheet and a marking procedure aimed at detecting plagiarism.

Recommended text(s)

Wilmore, J.H. & Costill, D.L. (2004). Physiology of sport & exercise, 3rd edition. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics.

Indicative references

Marieb, E. (2004). Human Anatomy and Physiology, 6th edition. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings. (text book and CD-ROM).

Foss, M.L. & Keteyian, S.J. (1998). Fox's Physiological Basis for Exercise and Sport, 6th edition. Madison: CB/McGraw Hill.

Shephard, R. J. & Astrand, P.-O. (eds) (1992). Endurance in Sport: The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine. London: Blackwell Scientific.

Tortora, G.J. & Grobowski, S.R. (1993). Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, 7th edition. New York: Harper Collins.

McArdle, W.D., Katch, F.I. & Katch, V.L. (2001). Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition and Human Performance, 5th edition. Philadelphia, USA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.