Base Knowledge
Anatomy, Physiology, Biophysics, Study of Human Movement.
Teaching Methodologies
The pedagogical methods and strategies adopted include: exposition, demonstration/exemplification, simulated practice among students, and problem solving.
Student support and follow-up mechanisms include face-to-face or remote assistance to clarify doubts and solve problems.
Learning Results
a) Possess knowledge and understanding in the field of exercise science / clinical exercise;
b) Know how to apply the acquired knowledge and understanding, in order to demonstrate a professional approach to the cycle of intervention in physiotherapy / physiotherapy process;
c) Ability to solve problems in the field of exercise science / clinical exercise, and to build and substantiate their own arguments;
d) Ability to collect, select and interpret relevant information, particularly in the field of exercise science / clinical exercise, which enables them to substantiate the solutions they advocate and the judgments they issue, including in the analysis the relevant social, scientific and ethical aspects ;
e) Skills that allow them to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions, particularly in the field of exercise science / clinical exercise, both to audiences made up of specialists and non-specialists;
f) Learning skills, particularly in the area of exercise science / clinical exercise, which allow them to learn lifelong with a high degree of autonomy.
Program
– Physical activity, exercise and health (1TP)
– Pre-participation health screening (1TP)
– Pre-exercise assessment (2TP)
– Assessment of movement and physical fitness (8TP)
– Health-related physical fitness: body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness (aerobic), muscular fitness (strength and endurance), flexibility and neuromotor fitness
– Activity and exercise prescription (8TP)
– Aerobic, resistance, flexibility and neuromotor exercise
– FITT-VP principles (frequency, intensity, time, type – volume, progression) of exercise prescription
– Components of the exercise training session: warm-up, conditioning and cool-down
– Principles of exercise training: overload, reversibility, progression, individuality, periodization, specificity
– Supervision of the exercise training program
– Metabolic calculations (6TP)
Curricular Unit Teachers
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Main bibliography:
ACSM (2008). ACSM’s Health-Related Physical Fitness Assessment Manual (2ed.). Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
ACSM (2009). ACSM’s Exercise is Medicine: A Clinician’s Guide to Exercise Prescription. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
ACSM (2017). ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health (2ed.) Champaign: Human Kinetics.
ACSM (2021). ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (11ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.
Complementary bibliography:
ACSM (2010). ACSM’s Certification Review (3ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.
ACSM (2014). ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (9ed.). Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
ACSM (2018). ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (10ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.
Ainsworth, B.E. et al. (2011). 2011 Compendium of Physical Activities: A second Update of codes and MET Values. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 43(8): 1575-81.
Baptista, F. & Sardinha, L.B. (2010). Cálculos Metabólicos. Lisboa: Edições FMH, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.
Bushman, B.A. (2020). Metabolic Calculations in Action: Part 1. ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal, 24(3): 6-10.
Bushman, B.A. (2020). Metabolic Calculations in Action: Part 2. ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal, 24(4): 5-8.
Garber, C.E. et al. (2011). Quantity and Quality of Exercise for Developing and Maintaining Cardiorespiratory, Musculoskeletal, and Neuromotor Fitness in Apparently Healthy Adults: Guidance for Prescribing Exercise. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 43(7):1334-59.
Hoover, D.L. (2016). Periodization and Physical Therapy: Bridging the Gap between Training and Rehabilitation. Physical Therapy in Sport, 18:1-20.