Performance Enhancement II
SPX 312 (Offering: 2003)

Description

This course is offered in second semester of the third year for science students in the sport and exercise science specialisation. The course is unique, in that it integrates and applies knowledge from the four sub-disciplines; motor learning, biochemistry, biomechanics and exercise physiology, which have been covered in the first three courses of the Sport Performance strand. Students are taken through the processes used in elite sport science institutes to optimise performance. Models of performance are used to examine the relationships between the performance factors of physical activities. The critical limiting factors of specific physical activities and sports are then identified. The knowledge from previous courses is then applied in overcoming the limiting performance factors. Current issues such as altitude training, blood doping and performance enhancing drugs will be covered in assignments and tutorials. Student projects in the form of case studies will be applied to classes of activities as well as specific sports and events. Skills in literature searching and critical analysis of research are developed as tools in evaluating current practices of performance enhancement and to hypothesise new approaches.

Major(s)/Minors(s): Sport and Exercise Science (major), Performance Enhancement (minor)

Usual Semester of offer: Semester 2

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