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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Science of Exercise by University of Colorado Boulder

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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 H H

May 20, 2021

Very interesting course but I did not receive my certificate till now though I have passed all components It has been now more than 2 months!! Any one can help?

By Francisco d l P

Sep 15, 2020

I'm very pleased with this course. It has a human sensitivity to apply the scientific knowledge to daily and practical life. It''s worth what I've paid for it.

By Daniel M

Apr 29, 2019

Good balance of entertaining presentations with good educational content. Very enjoyable course that has immediately applicable practical information/practices.

By Karan N S

Jun 4, 2020

It helped me to understand lot of things based on science it really helped me to learn about many things in science . So it is very good experience to obtain .

By Tracy W

Apr 22, 2020

The class was extremely interesting and well organized. Each section could almost be its own class. I hope more sports related classes are added in the future.

By Carmen C

Jan 19, 2018

Easy to follow along, with great explanations about the underlying mechanisms at work during exercise. If you ever needed motivation to hit the gym this is it.

By J C

Jan 14, 2021

Very good course. I appreciated and understood more what exercise can do for us. Exercise IS medicine. Thank you for having the option to offer this for free!

By g. s

Nov 21, 2020

Excellent course. Clear presentation and explanations, accompanied by useful diagrams and statistics. Appreciated the frequent reiterations of lessons learnt.

By Viswanatha C H

Sep 22, 2020

Its a simple exercise to ''energize'' yourself!

Good insights on the Science behind the benefits... Enjoyed both insights (science) and learning (benefits)!!!

By Ankush m k

Jul 25, 2020

Very helpful to get a general idea of the importance of exercise, nutrition and some basic concepts regarding changes in the body with respect to the workout.

By Ripjeet S R

May 23, 2020

Very well tailored course,with great insight about the various aspects involved in exercise. A very good job by the course instructor...keep up the good work.

By Fernando I H P

Feb 12, 2019

MUY COMPLETO, absolutamente recomendado. Aunque no se bien inglés, me estoy apoyando con el traductor de google; sin embargo, he comprendido mucha información

By María C M B

Dec 1, 2020

Excelente curso, es muy concreto con los temas y aporta conocimiento suficiente para entender diversos factores que entran en juego al momento de ejercitarse

By Mahesh M

Aug 25, 2020

Superb course if you are fitness freek and want to know the science behind it. I personally learned a lot and hence recommended this course to my colleagues.

By Gregory W

Oct 13, 2021

awesome course, well explained and highly practical both for personal development, academic reasons, and for just simple good god honesty scientific advice.

By Dipanshu A

Jul 1, 2021

Delivers much more than I ever exercised. It is highly detailed with illustrations, research reviews and much more, and yet is taught at a comfortable pace.

By Lee X Y

Jun 25, 2021

It was overall an enjoyable course that helped me to understand better in terms of how regular exercise helps to improve the health status of an individual.

By Subramanyam N V

Feb 15, 2021

It is one of the best courses for someone who is interested in knowing about body mechanics, basics of exercise, fundamental principles of exercise science.

By 赵博威

Feb 27, 2020

This lesson is very excellent. I learned from it what happens in our bodies when we exercise and the benefits of exercise on our physical and mental health.

By Luis E G y G

Apr 1, 2021

Great course, excellent content, it covers all the basic topics about exercise science, instructor is great, the content is precise and greatly displayed.

By Jennifer R

Sep 17, 2020

This was an interesting and very informative course. I learned a lot about exercise and its many benefits to the body; mentally and physically. Thank you!

By Андрей Л

May 7, 2020

a good amount of knowledge in a fairly compact course, I liked it.

I liked to correlate my knowledge in Russian with this knowledge in English. Thank you.

By Asia T

Sep 19, 2021

I enjoy following this course. Deserve perhaps one full week , about post exercise , recovering, stretching, nutrition and exercise and aging adaptation

By Donald Z

Jan 13, 2021

This course helped me a lot.I am taking a step to start my fitness business and hopefully my clients will benefit from my scientific approach to fitness.

By Sushrut G

Aug 17, 2021

Clear concepts, simple language, very knowledgable mentors, one of the best courses, with excellent guidance from team support members and peer feedback