2025
Physiology and exercise prescription in female populations
Name: Physiology and exercise prescription in female populations
Code: DES14870M
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Human Kinetics
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Objectives:
1 To know the main physiological differences in women throughout their lives.
2 To identify the main components of functional physical fitness and realize their importance in women's health.
3 To understand the specific physiological repercussions of women and their implications for exercise prescription.
5 Incorporate sports practice and current methods of physical activity, due to their positive effects on women's health.
6 Prescribe physical exercise for the female population based on the characteristics of women.
7 Monitor the effects of intervention programmes in terms of physiological variables, as well as preceptive-cognitive variables.
8 Interpreting physiological variables to understand women's functional and hormonal responses to physical activity at different levels of intensity.
9 Use new technologies, applications and resources to connect the laboratory to practice, bringing science closer to individualized training for women.
1 To know the main physiological differences in women throughout their lives.
2 To identify the main components of functional physical fitness and realize their importance in women's health.
3 To understand the specific physiological repercussions of women and their implications for exercise prescription.
5 Incorporate sports practice and current methods of physical activity, due to their positive effects on women's health.
6 Prescribe physical exercise for the female population based on the characteristics of women.
7 Monitor the effects of intervention programmes in terms of physiological variables, as well as preceptive-cognitive variables.
8 Interpreting physiological variables to understand women's functional and hormonal responses to physical activity at different levels of intensity.
9 Use new technologies, applications and resources to connect the laboratory to practice, bringing science closer to individualized training for women.
Contents
1 Introduction to physiology in female subjects
1.1 Conceptual introduction
1.2 Description of metabolic and hormonal characteristics throughout life (pre-menarche, menstrual cycle, pregnancy, menopause and elderly women).
1.3 Implications of women's characteristics for exercise physiology.
1.4. Health problems prevalent in women: indications and contraindications
1.5 Fitness and women
2. Specific psychosocial and cultural aspects
3. Some specific characteristics of exercise prescription for women
3.1 Exercise and age
3.2 Exercise and the menstrual cycle
3.3 Exercise and pregnancy
3.4 Classic and community exercise in women
3.5 Specific labor implications
1.1 Conceptual introduction
1.2 Description of metabolic and hormonal characteristics throughout life (pre-menarche, menstrual cycle, pregnancy, menopause and elderly women).
1.3 Implications of women's characteristics for exercise physiology.
1.4. Health problems prevalent in women: indications and contraindications
1.5 Fitness and women
2. Specific psychosocial and cultural aspects
3. Some specific characteristics of exercise prescription for women
3.1 Exercise and age
3.2 Exercise and the menstrual cycle
3.3 Exercise and pregnancy
3.4 Classic and community exercise in women
3.5 Specific labor implications
Teaching Methods
We advocate teaching centred on student learning and learning centred on the development of competences. The unit is organised into lectures, practical laboratory classes and tutorials. The content will be organised mainly in a practical and applied way. The lectures are plenary and based on the scientific method, valuing the search for information, the interpretation of experimental results and a critical attitude and scientific rigour in the students, which will develop transversal skills to other UCs. In laboratory classes, students will have to participate actively in the preparation and execution of the work, in the group discussion of the results and in the preparation of a report on the exercise prescription work. These classes will also seek to develop competences in the area of exercise prescription in a real-life situation, by conducting sessions. Digital resources will be used to manage communication via the Moodle platform.
Assessment
Assessment includes questions asked in practical laboratory classes to stimulate reflection and the presentation and discussion by students of scientific articles relevant to the content worked on (30% of the grade), and the completion and discussion of an assignment which will consist of carrying out an intervention program that can be applied in a real situation, for individualized work taking into account the menstrual cycle, aimed at physical activity groups for menopausal women, or proposed to pregnant women, with the aim of working to improve functional capacity, improve physical condition, fetal health, preparation for childbirth, recovery of the pelvic floor, etc. (70% of the grade).
Passing the course requires a final mark of 10 or more on the proposed tasks, on a scale of 0-20. The appeal assessment requires the completion and discussion of an assignment with 100% of the grade.
Passing the course requires a final mark of 10 or more on the proposed tasks, on a scale of 0-20. The appeal assessment requires the completion and discussion of an assignment with 100% of the grade.
Teaching Staff
- Pablo Tomás Carús [responsible]
Certificações
