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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

DB

Aug 9, 2020

This course was outstanding. There is so much that I learned that I will be able to apply to my own exercise routine. The videos were easy to follow and the quizzes tested the material thoroughly.

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.

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By Bruno

May 25, 2020

Great course! I think it could improve if the quizes were had deeper content.

By Kaiquan M

Oct 17, 2020

good intro to the science of exercise. assignment grading was a mixed bag.

By Voo G L

Nov 6, 2023

Hate the peer marking systems as it takes sometime for a person to "mark"

By Prithvi R

Aug 23, 2020

Vey good course I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Medicine.

By Guillermo P

May 12, 2020

very well instructed. the quiz was good. and the final was a challenge.

By Rajendra T

Jun 20, 2018

Very good coursework with many exercise aspects covered concisely.

By Ajitpall S

Jul 22, 2020

Quite technical and complex material for a non-biology background

By Vikram

Jun 5, 2020

A lots of thank you coursera for my certificate. I am very happy.

By Ajijola O

Aug 18, 2020

The course was highly interesting and educative

Thank you so much

By 杨宗瀚

Nov 10, 2017

Good, basic materials for students in sports&exercise science.

By Todd S

May 13, 2020

Interesting material with assignments to support the learning

By Ramash A

Oct 30, 2018

very much informative and effective in weight loss programs.

By Heyward H

Oct 18, 2024

A good but brief introduction to the physiology of exercise

By Olivier J

Apr 25, 2019

Very good training for intermediate to advanced students

By Shish R

Aug 23, 2020

It was an amazing journey. Thanks Mr. Robert Mazzeo.

By parsh k

Sep 16, 2018

Excellent course, very well taught and constructed.

By Amanda V

May 8, 2018

I've really enjoyed this course and learned a lot.

By Helen T

Aug 23, 2020

Good content, but videos could be more engaging.

By GAIKWAD A D J

Feb 5, 2021

The course wass very informative and detailed.

By Felix L

May 17, 2019

Great course for people into physical fitness.

By Jennifer D G R

Sep 12, 2020

I could learn a lot, and i really enjoyed it!

By Akhilesh M

May 19, 2020

Great course to enter in the fitness industry

By Joy R

Jun 19, 2020

Unable to cancel subscription please help

By Rajana R

Jun 15, 2020

Enjoyed the course got lot of information

By Kemi L B

Apr 24, 2020

Very explanatory and easy to understand.