Exercise Prescription II

Human movement studies; Movement therapy; Therapeutic exercise.

The pedagogical methods and strategies adopted include: exposition (T10); demonstration/exemplification of the exercise prescription with simulated practice between students; and problem solving (TP 20).

Develop the knowledge and understanding to a deeper level about the prescription of exercise and training programs on the approach of people with different health conditions;

The academic skills to be acquired are the following:

Acquisition of a level of knowledge that allows to analyse the evidence available and find solutions within the ambit of therapeutic exercise prescription;

Ability to plan, organise and execute training programs applied to different health conditions;

Ability to integrate knowledge, deal with complex issues, develop solutions or issue judgments in new situations in multidisciplinary contexts;

Development of critical spirit and initiative in the implementation training programs as strategic measures in physiotherapy.

Cognitive, methodological, technological and linguistic skills.

Ability to create and apply research methodologies to study the effect of training programs in different health conditions.

Preexercise assessment of healthrelated physical aptitude (body composition, cardiorespiratory aptitude, strength and muscular endurance and flexibility) and health conditions

Exercise prescription applied to health conditions:

– Warm-up/cool-down

– Frequency

– Intensity

– Time (duration)

– Type (mode)

– Volume

Aerobic exercise, strength and muscular endurance, flexibility and neuromotor applied to health conditions

Exercise training programs applied to health conditions:

– Individuality

– Reversibility

– Progression

– Overload

– Periodization

– Specificity

Supervision of exercise training programs applied to health

NAO

ACSM´s guidelines for exercise testing and prescription. Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, etc.: Wolters Lumer Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014.

Hellénius, M; Sundberg C J (2011) Physical activity as medicine: time to translate evidence into clinical practice. Br J Sports Med 2011;45:158

Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee. PAGC Report, 2008. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services

SNIPH (2010) Physical Activity in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease. Professional Associations for Physical Activity, Sweden

William MA, Haskell WL, Ades PA, Amsterdam EA, Bittner V, Franklin BA, et al. Resistance exercise in individuals with and without cardiovascular disease. 2007 Update. A scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology and Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism. 2007