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

Subject level: Undergraduate

Result Type: Grade and marks

Requisite(s): 27173 Human Performance in Sport and Exercise
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are also course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.

Handbook description

This subject examines principles related to the prescription of exercise across a wide variety of populations to achieve specific gains in strength, power, endurance and speed. It considers the areas of testing physiological function, program development and gender in exercise programming.

Subject objectives/outcomes

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

1. Explain the procedures for evaluating fitness and prescribing exercise for apparently healthy adults and children.
2. Discuss the impact of exercise participation on patient recovery, public health, worksite productivity and fitness.
3. Identify practical strategies for behaviour intervention and exercise programming that will enhance participant adherence to exercise and fitness programs.

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 contributes to the development of a strong understanding of the processes underlying human movement and specifically exercise prescription and adherence. It informs and constrains theoretical knowledge concerning the implementation, planning, management and evaluation of human movement related services.

Teaching and learning strategies

Teaching and learning strategies include formal lectures and laboratory/tutorial sessions. Content for this subject will be supported by UTSOnline.

Content

• Relationships among exercise, fitness and health (physiology, gerontology, endocrinology, genetics, cardiology, psychology, epidemiology, orthopaedics and nutrition)
• Cardiovascular implications of fitness and exercise
• Fitness for the aged, disabled and industrial workers
• Fitness in specific populations
• Exercise prescription and physical fitness for healthy children
• Principles of exercise adherence
• Implementing and evaluating health/fitness programs

Assessment

Mid Semester Examination (Individual)	30%
This addresses objectives 1-3.
Training Project (Group)	30%
This addresses objectives 1-3.
Final Exam (Individual)	40%
This addresses objectives 1-3.

Examinations will be conducted under University examination conditions, and hence thoroughly address concerns regarding secure assessment. The submission of the training program 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)

Heyward, V.H. (2002). Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription, 2nd edition. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics.

Indicative references

Baechle, T.R. and Earle, R.W. (eds.) (2001). Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning, 2nd edition. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics.

Foran, B. (2001). High-Performance Sports Conditioning. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics.

Komi, P. (ed.) (2002). Strength and Power in Sport, 2nd edition. London: Blackwell Scientific.

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

Swan, D.P. & Leutholtz, B.C. (2002). Exercise Prescription: A Case Study Approach to the ACSM Guidelines. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics.