Health and Physical Condition

Code: DES10669L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Exercício e Saúde

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, Spanish

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

Give the students of Sport Science, basic knowledge of exercise prescription as a vector for physical health.
Evaluate the techniques of exercise prescription on the slope of health
The approach to these questions will be based on:
1. Domain and deepening of fundamental concepts.
2. Practical application of knowledge.

1 - Diabetes Mellitus
2 - Dyslipidemia
3 - Hypertension
4 - Obese
5 - Metabolic Syndrome
6 - Osteoporosis
7 - Arthritis
8 - Fibromyalgia
9 - The elderly
10 - Children

Teaching Methods

The classes take place during the second semester, and in each week there will be a lecture and a theoretical-practical
class. Each will last one hundred and twenty minutes, on a continuous assessment, using the classroom as a
workplace. There will be approximately 15 practical sessions 30 theoretical-practical sessions.
The evaluation of the student will be done through two processes:
The continuous assessment process
Have evaluation with score greater than or equal to 9.5 in the practice classification (40%);
Have evaluation with score greater than or equal to 9.5 in theoretical classification (60%).
The final evaluation process
Have evaluation with score greater than or equal to 9.5 in the practice classification (40%);
Have evaluation with score greater than or equal to 9.5 in theoretical classification (60%).