XNB273 Exercise Physiology

Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Overview

This unit provides the knowledge and skills required of an exercise professional to understand and assess the metabolic, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and neuromuscular responses to acute and chronic exercise. Over the course of this unit, you will develop an understanding of the physiological mechanisms for exercise performance that inform concepts of exercise prescription and programming delivered later in the course. The content and techniques covered in this unit are equally applicable for those students considering careers as exercise science, sports science, and clinical exercise physiology professionals.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Analyse, interpret and explain physiological data obtained during acute exercise, and compare such data between time points, individuals and populations.
2. Integrate knowledge of individual physiological systems to describe the adaptions to acute and chronic exercise.
3. Describe the physiological response of these systems to varying forms, intensities, and durations of exercise.

Content

Learning Approaches

This unit will be delivered using a one-hour lecture and two-hour laboratory/tutorial format. It will use a combination of learning and teaching approaches, which include problem-based learning, individual learning and experimental learning by exploring and manipulating physiological data and practicing skill competency. Industry-relevant digital practices and technologies will be used, particularly when collecting and analysing physiological data.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Feedback to Students
Assessment will be spaced throughout the semester to provide the opportunity for feedback on your learning to that point. Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:

• You will be provided with verbal and/or written feedback on each piece of formative and summative assessment during the semester;
• criteria sheet grading;
• comments on summative assessment work in addition to criteria sheets; and
• lgeneric comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas.

You are encouraged to communicate with the unit coordinator or unit tutor if you have any questions or concerns about the assessment items.

Assessment

Overview

General Assessment Information
Each assessment item is designed to measure your knowledge and mastery of professional skills stated in the learning outcomes.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Practical Examination

Taking the role of an exercise professional, you will apply learned practical skills in a simulated scenario, conducting physiological assessments to screen a prospective client's health risks before exercise testing and prescription. This practical assessment mirrors real-world applications, refining your abilities to collect and analyse data using industry-relevant technologies and make informed suggestions in a client-practitioner context.

Assessment: Quiz

After completing each of the four learning modules, you will do an online quiz designed to reinforce and evaluate your understanding of exercise physiology. Quizzes will each comprise ten multiple-choice derived from lectures, tutorials, and readings. Each quiz assesses your comprehension of the module's key topics, ensuring a continuous and interactive learning experience.

Assessment: Written Examination

This examination assesses your understanding of key concepts, principles and applications covered throughout the semester. Short-answer questions will require you to list, define, explain, justify and relate content on energy metabolism and the cardiovascular, respiratory and metabolic systems covered in lectures, tutorials and readings.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.

Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Resources

Resource Materials

Prescribed text(s)

McArdle, W.D., Katch, V.L. & Katch, F. I. (2015). Exercise physiology: Nutrition, energy and human performance (8th ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Risk Assessment Statement

This unit will involve laboratory-based sessions. You will complete a laboratory induction session during which safety precautions to be observed while working in the laboratory will be outlined. You will be required to read the laboratory safety manual and sign the form indicating that you have read and understood the material contained in the manual. Hard copies of the manual are displayed within the exercise physiology laboratory.