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Laurea magistrale in Scienze motorie preventive ed adattate - Enrollment from 2025/2026
MOTORIE 1° semestre From 10/1/19 To 1/24/20
years Modules TAF Teacher
Anthropometry D Carlo Zancanaro (Coordinator)
Physiology of sport nutrition D Silvia Pogliaghi (Coordinator)
Biochemistry for sport D Massimo Donadelli (Coordinator)
Methodology of sport activities measures D Luca Paolo Ardigo' (Coordinator)
Adapted motor learning D Mirta Fiorio (Coordinator)
Physical bases of exercise prescription D Silvia Pogliaghi (Coordinator)
Advanced nutrition for sports D Silvia Pogliaghi (Coordinator)
Sport physiology D Silvia Pogliaghi (Coordinator)
MOTORIE 2° semestre From 3/2/20 To 5/31/20
years Modules TAF Teacher
Sports and drugs D Roberto Leone (Coordinator)
Forensic medicine and social security D Aldo Eliano Polettini (Coordinator)
Research methodology applied to sport D Not yet assigned
Statistics applied to movement sciences D Maria Elisabetta Zanolin (Coordinator)
Neuromotor rehabilitation D Nicola Smania (Coordinator)
Theory and pedagogy of nordic walking D Barbara Pellegrini (Coordinator)
1° 2° Neurological diseases and movement disorders D Michele Tinazzi (Coordinator)

Teaching code

4S008918

Credits

3

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Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

BIO/09 - PHYSIOLOGY

Period

MOTORIE 1° semestre dal Oct 1, 2019 al Jan 24, 2020.

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to consolidate, through practical application, the student's ability to modulate the metabolic intensity element in the prescription of the individualized exercise. The course explores the theoretical skills related to the main functional indices used to quantify the metabolic intensity element in the exercise prescription and the measurement methods of these indices. Referring to the most recent international literature, the course provides advanced skills related to the correct individualization of the workload and the translation of metabolic intensity indices into an equivalent external load.

Program

Physiological bases of exercise prescription
The course is articualted in 12 lessons of 2 hrs each, alternated between traditional lectures and “reversed classroom” lessons during which the students will be engaged in the study of “clinical cases”, calculations, critical revision of articles on the following topics:
1. Maximal oxygen consumption: physiological bases, practical importance, sensitivity to training, effect of ageing, sex and normative population data.
2. VO2max: direct measurement methods: instruments, protocols, the max-peak issue, usefulness of a verification trial.
3. VO2max: indirect measurement methods: estimate equations, Astrand test and variations, heart rate-based methods.
4. Critical power and other thresholds: the concept of intensity zones, physiological bases.
5. Critical power and other thresholds: laboratory and “field” methods of measurement, correspondence between methods.
6. Translation of functional indexes into exercise prescriptions.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
American College of Sports Medicine ACSM's Guidelines for exercise testing and prescription (Edizione 10) Wolters Kluwer 2018 9781496339065

Examination Methods

Exam: written (15 multiple choice questions with 5 answers + 4 open questions)
Marking: attendance (1/4), participation to class work (1/4), exam (1/2)

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