Class Health and Physical Fitness

This CU approaches health promotion through physical exercise and lifestyle modification, supported by updated scientific evidence, reflecting the importance of sleep, reduction of sedentary lifestyles and promotion of physical activity. The CU enables an approach to the real needs of the sports coach, as well as the promotion of health in the athlete, according to the global vision and commonly accepted in the scientific community of salutogenesis and well-being associated with physical exercise. The UC seeks the extension of contents covered in previous years at the level of prescription and exercise in apparently healthy populations, deepening for the young/adult athlete, with reference to the prevention of injuries and the management of more common pathologies in athletes. Thus, the UC is articulated with the others by an approach that aims the integration of previously acquired knowledge.

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1. Physical Activity and Health 1.1. Interrelationship between concepts of physical activity, physical exercise, sedentary behaviour and health. 2. Benefits associated with physical activity. 2.1. Epidemiological Surveillance of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour. 2.2. Methods for assessing physical activity in children and adolescents (objective and subjective methods; advantages and disadvantages). 3. Methods for assessing physical fitness in athletes and non-athletes. 4. Risks associated with physical activity/exercise. 5. Harms associated with sedentary behaviour. 6. Importance of sleep for health. 7. Exercise prescription: 7.1. for health promotion in young athletes. 7.2. for health promotion in adult athletes. 8. Methods for assessing physical fitness in children and their association with health - FITEscola and FitnessGram. 9. Recommendations for the 24-hour movement behaviours.

This CU will use expository and experiential learning methods. - Continuous assessment method: written test (60%), group work/oral presentation (25%) and solving case studies/class tasks (15%). Grades <9,5 are considered insufficient, and the student may take a recovery assessment test (oral or written) whenever the pondered average of the grades is ≥9.5. The recovery test can only be taken for one of the assessment components, in the last class of the semester. Attendance must be 70% of the total number of classes. - Assessment by final exam (appeal season and/or special season) will involve a written test, with oral assessment (only students with a mark ≥9.5 in the theory test will have access to the oral test). The two components each have a weight of 50% for the final grade of the exam.

ACSM (2017). Guidelines for exercise testing and prescription (10th Edition). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Teixeira, D. S., Gaspar, C., Marques, P. (2017). Manual do Técnico de Exercício Físico. Porto Salvo: Edições Manz. The Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research. FITNESSGRAM - Manual de Aplicação de Testes (2009). 3ª Edição, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Lisboa. Malina, R., Bouchard, C. & Bar-Or, O. Maturation, Growth and Physical Activity (2004). 2nd Edition. Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL.