PHED 519 - Advances in Exercise Prescription

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: EPHY 401, evidence of undergraduate- or graduate-level preparation in exercise physiology, or consent of instructor
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.