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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

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Sep 19, 2019

I truly loved this course as a personal trainer from experience of years im having so much fun in this course and getting to know a lot more about my fieldThank you for putting all of this together

MS

Aug 7, 2021

T​here was so much information packed into this course. The knowledge I gained will help me with my personal training clients. But also give me the confidence to continue learning online.

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By Hamayun A

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Jul 17, 2020

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

By Shazin U

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Aug 6, 2020

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

By Bruno

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May 26, 2020

Great course! I think it could improve if the quizes were had deeper content.

By Kaiquan M

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Oct 17, 2020

good intro to the science of exercise. assignment grading was a mixed bag.

By Voo G L

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Nov 7, 2023

Hate the peer marking systems as it takes sometime for a person to "mark"

By Prithvi R

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Aug 23, 2020

Vey good course I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Medicine.

By Guillermo P

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May 13, 2020

very well instructed. the quiz was good. and the final was a challenge.

By Rajendra T

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Jun 21, 2018

Very good coursework with many exercise aspects covered concisely.

By Ajitpall S

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Jul 23, 2020

Quite technical and complex material for a non-biology background

By Vikram

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Jun 6, 2020

A lots of thank you coursera for my certificate. I am very happy.

By Ajijola O

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Aug 18, 2020

The course was highly interesting and educative

Thank you so much

By 杨宗瀚

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Nov 10, 2017

Good, basic materials for students in sports&exercise science.

By Todd S

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May 13, 2020

Interesting material with assignments to support the learning

By Ramash A

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Oct 30, 2018

very much informative and effective in weight loss programs.

By Heyward H

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Oct 19, 2024

A good but brief introduction to the physiology of exercise

By Olivier J

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Apr 25, 2019

Very good training for intermediate to advanced students

By Shish

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Aug 24, 2020

It was an amazing journey. Thanks Mr. Robert Mazzeo.

By parsh k

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Sep 16, 2018

Excellent course, very well taught and constructed.

By Helen T

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Aug 24, 2020

Good content, but videos could be more engaging.

By GAIKWAD A D J

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Feb 5, 2021

The course wass very informative and detailed.

By Felix L

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May 17, 2019

Great course for people into physical fitness.

By Jennifer D G R

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Sep 12, 2020

I could learn a lot, and i really enjoyed it!

By Akhilesh M

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May 20, 2020

Great course to enter in the fitness industry

By Joy R

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Jun 20, 2020

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