PHED 519 - Advances in Exercise Prescription

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: EPHY 401 or consent of instructor
 See Addenda to the 2024/2025 Catalog for changes to this course effective Spring 2025

This course is concerned with special circumstances, which dictate that one must adjust either the exercise testing or prescription for an individual. It is thus focused on descriptions of special situations, testing and prescription for those situations. Other special cases considered will be gender, children, aging, environment, arthritis, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, low fitness, high fitness, respiratory disorders and hypertension. Offered summer session.