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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

MB

Sep 11, 2020

It is a very great course. This course taught me many great things about the human body like how the body responses to exercise and nutrition. What, when, how we should do exercise and take nutrition.

BO

Oct 3, 2020

An exceptionally great course. I enjoyed every bit of it. Thanks to the organizers for making these as easy and simple as possible. Now I can live a more healthy lifestyle with the principles learned!

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By Amolpreet K

May 4, 2019

this course is very helpful for those who are very keen to know about fitness and other aspects

By Franklyn E

Jun 20, 2020

It was truly an experience wonderful one and very much to do with this skill thanks Dr. Mazzeo

By Lucas A

Aug 15, 2020

Great course, cover the basics with a lot of information, and great teaching and materials.

By Tim R

Jun 29, 2020

Great information for personal use as well as possibly starting to develop a second career.

By Bishal B

Mar 29, 2020

It was awesome experience to learn online with coursera. I just loved studying in coursera

By Mohit h g

Jul 16, 2020

i like the way of teaching to understand that how regular exercise improves our health.

By Gabi S

Sep 8, 2020

difficult for beginners to understand in the beginning but well created and explained.

By Zeqiong H

Jul 11, 2020

Great material. Though maybe a bit short? I'd wish to cover more (the speed is great!)

By Humayun A

Jul 16, 2020

Thank you so much for the course. It was well delivered. Learned some useful things.

By Shazin U

Aug 5, 2020

This course helped me a lot to study about science that hidden in the exercises.

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 21, 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 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.