27222 Exercise Prescription

Subject level: Undergraduate

Handbook description

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

Subject objectives/outcomes

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

1. understand the procedures for evaluating fitness and prescribing exercise for varying populations
2. understand the theoretical issues relating to exercise prescription for varying populations
3. demonstrate the ability to design and implementation of appropriate training programs for healthy individuals up to the elite athletes.

Contribution to graduate profile

This subject is in the core of the BA Human Movement Studies and the BM Sport and Exercise programs and is designed to provide students with a strong understanding of safe and effective methods for delivery and evaluation of exercise and physical activity programs for groups and individuals. This subject develops competencies in assessment of anthropometry, cardiorespiratory health and fitness, muscular strength and endurance, data analysis, functional testing, and exercise leadership central to professional practice in health, fitness and sports settings.

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)
• Pre-exercise screening and fitness assessment
• Periodisation and progression of physical training programs
• Exercise prescription for the development of specific physical capacities
• Fitness and physical performance assessment of healthy individuals
• Monitoring and evaluating training
• Implementing and evaluating health/fitness programs

Assessment

Assessment item 1: Practical Skills Test (Individual)

Assessment item 2: Training Project (Group)

Assessment item 3: Final Exam (Individual)

Required text(s)

American College of Sports Medicine (2006), ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (5th edn), Sydney, Australia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Laboratory Manual — UTS Kuring-gai bookshop

Indicative references

American College of Sports Medicine (2005), Guidelines for exercise testing and prescription (7th edn), Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger

Baechle, TR and Earle, RW eds. (2001) Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning, 2nd edn, Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL

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

Gore, CJ (2000) Physiological Tests for Elite Athletes. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics

McArdle, WD, Katch, FI and Katch, VL, 2001, Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition and Performance, (5th ed), Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia

Schell, J and Leelarthaepin, B (1994), Physical Fitness Assessment in Exercise and Sport Science. Leelar Biomediscience: Sydney

Skinner, J (1987), Exercise Testing and Exercise Prescription for Special Cases, Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger

Swan, DP and Leutholtz, BC (2002), Exercise Prescription: A Case Study Approach to the ACSM Guidelines, Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics