ISMAT 1081

Health and Physical Fitness

• ApresentaçãoPresentation

  The Health and Physical Fitness CU, considering a comprehensive perspective, is transversal to the three main areas of the Degree in Sports Science: School Physical Education, Sports Training, and Exercise and Health. Therefore, its focus is on physical assessment, as well as exercise prescription aimed at improving overall physical fitness, also considering the scope of exercise practice in relation to the existence of several chronic pathologies based on scientific evidence.
• ProgramaProgramme

  S 1: Benefits of regular physical activity for health and fitness.   S 2: Determinants and models of analysis and intervention leading to the adoption of healthy lifestyles.   S 3: Health screening and physical and/or functional assessment tests by age group.   S 4: Anthropometry: skinfold thickness, perimeters and circumferences.   S 5: Measurement of human energy consumption and metabolic calculations.   S 6: Assessment, prescription and monitoring of physical exercise practice according to special life stages (children, adults and the elderly) and cardiovascular, metabolic and autoimmune pathologies (diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia).
• ObjectivosObjectives

  This CU aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to:   LO 1. Recognize, in general, the importance of physical activity and, especially, physical exercise, for health from a preventive point of view, as well as some models used to motivate students to start and maintain this practice;   LO 2. Make effectively and safety intervention, strictly within their professional areas of expertise, in the field of physical and functional assessment, applying general and specific protocols according to several special conditions (pathologies) and special phases of life (children, adults and the elderly);   LO 3. Do planning, periodizing, and controlling the practice of physical exercise, considering international recommendations and the specific constraints of the participants.
• BibliografiaBibliography

  - Raposo, F., Malveiro, C., & Batalau, R. (2023). Avaliação e Prescrição de Exercício em Condições e Populações Especiais. Vol. I. Edição: Fitness Academy. ISBN: 978-989-53576-7-3   - Raposo, F., Malveiro, C., & Batalau, R. (2023). Avaliação e Prescrição de Exercício em Condições e Populações Especiais. Vol. II. Fitness Academy. ISBN: 978-989-53576-6-6   - ACSM Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription. 11th edition. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer. 2021.   - Stewart, A., Marfell-Jones, M., Olds, T., & Ridder, H. International Standards for Anthropometric Assessment. New Zealand: The International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthopometry. 2011.     
• MetodologiaMethodology

    M 1:  Theoretical, expository teaching introducing the program content;   M 2: Theoretical and practical teaching for the application of physical and functional assessment protocols in a real-world context (in a "role-play" situation);   M 3: Problem-based learning methodologies;   M 4: Practical application of evidence-based exercise prescription in a role-play situation.  
• LínguaLanguage

  Português
• TipoType

  Semestral
• ECTS

  6
• NaturezaNature

  Mandatory
• EstágioInternship

  Não