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PHYSIOLOGY
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 PHYSIOLOGY OF EXERCISE
Exercise is an important part of life. Regular exercise has a
positive, significant impact and potential benefits on the
human body as it helps you to stay fit, maintain an ideal
body weight and improve physiological function, physical
fitness, and health. To help shed some light on this
complex field of study, a broad overview of this rewarding
career, with some basic definitions and distinctions
between some of the confusing and similar sounding fields
are put together.
Many use the terms physiology of exercise,
exercise science, sports medicine and even
kinesiology interchangeably, but experts in these
fields know there are diverse differences
between them. Before focusing on the basics of
physiology of exercise, it is essential to deal with
these often misunderstood disciplines.
 WHAT IS KINESIOLOGY?
Kinesiology is the study of human movement. It focuses on
the biological, developmental, social and behavioral bases of
physical activity, recreation, sport and human performance.
People with degrees in kinesiology typically specialize in one
of several fields, including exercise physiology; sport and
exercise psychology; motor behavior and control; history and
philosophy of sport and exercise; biomechanics; sports and
exercise sociology; physical education; recreation and leisure
studies; and ergonomics.
 WHAT IS SPORTS MEDICINE?
Sports medicine deals directly with injuries sustained in
sports, exercise and physical activity, including their
prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Historically, this field
was dominated by physicians, but today sports medicine
includes professionals from many different fields who have
shared interest in preventing and treating physical activity-
related injuries. This includes physicians, athletic trainers,
nutritionists, exercise physiologists, physical therapists and
bio mechanists.
WHAT IS
PHYSIOLOGY
OF EXERCISE?
This field has become very important to the health care
industry, with more and more people beginning to use
exercise to prevent and improve health problems. Physiology
of Exercise is defined as the body’s response to exercise and
adaptation to exercise training to maximize human physical
potential. It explores the processes, analysis, improvement
and maintenance of the physiological mechanisms involved in
physical or motor activity. It is designed for individuals who
have a strong interest in fitness and science. It studies how the
body (cell, tissue, organ system) responds in function and
structure to acute exercise stress and to chronic physical
activity.
Physiology of exercise is at the heart of every champion
athlete. Every training system, every performance
enhancement, even the prevention and rehab of injuries
comes first from a sound understanding of how the body
responds to exercise and stress. But it’s not just the elite
that can benefit from this understanding. Amateur and
aspiring pros alike can begin to tap their full potential by
learning more about their body’s capabilities
 WHY SHOULD YOU CONSIDER TAKING
PHYSIOLOGY OF EXERCISE?
Physiology of exercise plays a pivotal role in
medicine, and allied health fields. It incorporates
science into human performance, work, and
physical education. In addition, you are better
able to scientifically understand the benefits of
exercise and healthy living in combating many of
the diseases and maladies affecting our
populations, such as diabetes and obesity.
With diseases such as obesity and diabetes
rising in the general population, the increased
need for medical doctors, physical and
occupational therapists, scholars of physiology
of exercise not only provides applied and
clinical research for medical doctors and other
practitioners to draw upon, but preparing
waves of new physicians, physical therapists or
teach undergraduates who aspire to these
roles.