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About the Course

Learners who complete Science of Exercise will have an improved physiological understanding of how your body responds to exercise, and will be able to identify behaviors, choices, and environments that impact your health and training. You will explore a number of significant adjustments required by your body in order to properly respond to the physical stress of exercise, including changes in carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism, nutritional considerations, causes of muscle soreness & fatigue, and the effectiveness and dangers of performance enhancing drugs. Active learning assessments will challenge you to apply this new knowledge via nutrition logs, heart rate monitoring, calculations of your total daily caloric expenditure and body mass index (BMI). Finally, learners will examine the scientific evidence for the health benefits of exercise including the prevention and treatment of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity (weight loss), depression, and dementia....

Top reviews

NT

Apr 14, 2020

Love everything about this course. Nice module. Professor is really nice. However, I need to learn further about weight training (Pros, cons , etc). Looking forward to attend in weight training class.

BO

Oct 3, 2020

An exceptionally great course. I enjoyed every bit of it. Thanks to the organizers for making these as easy and simple as possible. Now I can live a more healthy lifestyle with the principles learned!

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By 최주안

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Feb 14, 2022

This helped me learn more about how exercise affect the human body and why exercise is important. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn this wonderful course!

By VYCTTOR M D M A D S

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Apr 25, 2021

Amazing experience! The professor, Robert Mazzeo, teach with a good didatic, bring the main aspects about the science of exercise, in a very good approach to begginers!

By Avichal S

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Jun 10, 2020

Most practical day to day course I've done ever. This is huge compliment. I'm including even offline course/internet data. Great course. Must do for fitness enthusiast.

By Rajiv K P

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Sep 18, 2020

Simplifies the concepts to layman level without losing the scientific temperament.

All relevant subjects covered comprehensively with supporting scientific references.

By Surendra M

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Jun 19, 2020

It is a best course for me specially because of its flexible design a student can admit in the course and can learn number of things with very deep and specific thing.

By Esha K

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May 26, 2020

Absolutely fantastic course!! A must do for everyone who wants to be in shape and healthy. Really well-taught. I learned a lot and am very grateful for it! Thank you!!

By VANDANA C T

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May 7, 2021

Great for a beginner.Came to learn a lot about the ongoing functions and adaptations in the body. Was helpful to start off a deeper learning into health and exercise.

By Deepika m

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Sep 28, 2020

Extremely informative. The language was a issue at first, but it was easy to adapt it as one goes on with the course. Had a very good experience. Highly recommend.

By ML H

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Sep 8, 2020

Unfortunately I need to drop the course. It has been 10 days since I signed up and I am unable to find the "drop course" button as described on the Coursera website.

By Lara T

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Mar 29, 2020

Very nicely lectured mini-series teaching concepts immediately helpful in choosing my training strategy. I'll be sure to try to influence everyone I know to exercise!

By RK S

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Aug 29, 2019

The course is designed so well and gives you a thorough knowledge of how exercise affects the human body. A complete guide to enhance your wit on Science of exercise.

By Chinedu V

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Nov 4, 2017

This course went beyond my expectation to be honest, I got more than I would have imagined from the outside, like my mom will always say, "It's better seen than told"

By Carlos C M

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May 4, 2020

Great course. Prof. Mazzeo and the University of Boulder Colorado made an excellent job with this course, the information, the structure of the course it is superb!

By Diep H

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Jun 25, 2019

It's a well structured course and concise. All the basic concepts is outlined with examples and graphs. There's a lot of learning so you'll need time and dedication.

By Stephney S

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Oct 1, 2020

The course was well organized and relatively comprehensive for a 4-week course. Professor Mazzeo was very articulate, knowledgable and I enjoyed his video lectures.

By Hector C

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Aug 10, 2020

I liked this course, it has a lot of science but is very well explained by the Robert Mazzeo, Ph.D. I learnt how to train better and keep my hobbie despite the age.

By Mary E

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Aug 1, 2020

I enjoyed this course immensely. Dr. Mazzeo's videos very informative. I learned a lot and hope to continually improve my knowledge of nutrition and the human body.

By Walter M Q

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Jun 20, 2020

Is a great course, it has very complete and deep info for you to learn what's needed and more, it has some online outdated tools, but still I recommend this course!

By Tomas L T

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Aug 20, 2021

Great introductory course on the benefits of exercise. It delivers what you need to know to motivate you or others to take fitness as an investment on themselves.

By Kayra K

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Jun 26, 2021

Teacher was very clear and covered all the key points, along with involving important smaller details that made me that one bit more clear upon each topic covered.

By Sharlotte J L

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Apr 30, 2024

it was an amazing course full of knowledge. Learned a lot from it and not even mind redoing it again for learning . I hope you there will be part 2 if this course

By MUHAMMED E A T

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May 14, 2021

it was very helpful and interesting course the teacher has given lots of important information in a simple way which was so useful to understand the topics easily

By Pavel G

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Nov 14, 2021

Great course. Some of biochemistry, which I really wanted to know. Exactly of my level of competence. I would recommend to make graphs more readable and modern.

By David M S M

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Aug 3, 2020

Many thanks for the teacher. The material was very clear and very interesting. I recommend this course to anyone interested in sport and how it affects the body.

By Miguel A S G

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Feb 26, 2019

Great course, the best one so far of all of the ones I've taken from coursera in relation with exercise and nutrition sections. Very clear, detailed and concise.