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Type D and Type F activities
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Laurea in Scienze delle attività motorie e sportive - Enrollment from 2025/2026| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher | |
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| 3° | Methods and techniques for body composition measurement | D |
Carlo Zancanaro
(Coordinator)
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| 2° 3° | Physiology of sport nutrition | D |
Silvia Pogliaghi
(Coordinator)
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| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher | |
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| 3° | Advanced nutrition for sports | D |
Silvia Pogliaghi
(Coordinator)
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| 3° | Sport physiology | D |
Silvia Pogliaghi
(Coordinator)
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| 3° | Theory and pedagogy of nordic walking | D |
Barbara Pellegrini
(Coordinator)
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| 2° 3° | Hygiene applied to physical activities | D |
Stefano Tardivo
(Coordinator)
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| 2° 3° | Statistics applied to movement sciences | D |
Maria Elisabetta Zanolin
(Coordinator)
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Sport physiology (2017/2018)
Teaching code
4S00102
Academic staff
Coordinator
Credits
3
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
BIO/09 - PHYSIOLOGY
Period
II semestre dal Mar 5, 2018 al Jun 1, 2018.
Learning outcomes
“Sport Physiology” is an elective course on Integrative Physiology applied to movement and sport.
The course aims at providing detailed notions on the main functional indexes of aerobic performance. Through the reading of scientific articles the course aims at fostering technical competences and critical thinking that are propaedeutic to research in the field of sport sciences. Since a few years, the course offered in English, to foster the understanding and use of scientific terminology and of international science communication style.
Program
The course is organised in 12 lessons of 2 hours each. Theorical ex-catedra lessosn are alternated with interactive lessons for which students are required to present a critical revision of scientific articles on the following subjects:
1.VO2max: physiological bases, practical relevance, sensitivity to training, ageing and sex and population normative data.
2. Il VO2max: direct methods of measurement: equipment, protocols, the peak-max issue, usefulness of the verification trial.
3.Il VO2max: indirect methods of measurement: equation estimates, the Astrand test and its variations, heart rate-based estimates.
4. The critical power and other thresholds: the exercise intensity concept, physiological bases of the thresholds, field and laboratory methods of measurement, correspondance between methods.
5 Translation of functional indexes into exercise programs
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| W. D. Mcardle, F. I. Katch, V. L. Katch | FISIOLOGIA APPLICATA ALLO SPORT Aspetti energetici, nutrizionali e performance | Casa Editrice Ambrosiana | 2009 | ISBN 978-8-808-18224-1 |
Examination Methods
The exam is performed in English and includes a written multiple-choiche test (20 questions with 5 answers) + an oral exam for those who pass the written test with at least 18/30.
