Renowned exercise physiologists Martin Gibala and Stuart Phillips of McMaster University teach the surprising new science of cardio fitness and strength-building—and then provide you with hacks to get fit and strong (and healthy!) in less time than you ever thought possible. What’s the right mix of exercise between cardio and strength? How do you know if you’re working out hard enough? What’s better, heavy or light weights? These questions and more are addressed through a course designed to provide even the most inexperienced of exercisers the tools you need to design time-efficient workouts that can be done virtually anywhere, from your own home to a city park or even at your workplace.
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Hacking Exercise For Health. The surprising new science of fitness.
McMaster UniversityAbout this Course
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How to evaluate the role that physical activity plays in your health
How your cardiorespiratory fitness can be improved with aerobic training
How strength training results in strength gains and improve your health
How to formulate you own cardiorespiratory and musculoskeletal exercise routine to improve your health
Skills you will gain
- health
- Cardiorespiratory
- exercise
- musculoskeletal
- Nutrition
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
The Basics of Fitness
Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Musculoskeletal Fitness
Combining Cardio and Strength Fitness
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- 5 stars76.63%
- 4 stars16.16%
- 3 stars4.48%
- 2 stars1.22%
- 1 star1.49%
TOP REVIEWS FROM HACKING EXERCISE FOR HEALTH. THE SURPRISING NEW SCIENCE OF FITNESS.
i loved it and learnt alot about how to help people exercise to get results with factoring in shortage of time todays life style of people being busy all the time
For those of us who are not Olympians, there is hope to stay in shape without spending hundreds of hours in the gym. This is a fun, yet useful mooc.
Very entertaining and educational. They gave me easy steps that I could immediately implement to improve the quality of my workouts.
Es un curso bastante informativo y didáctico, sin embargo, me habría gustado profundizar en el ejercicio de fuerza y la importancia de la carga progresiva, etc
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