Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Physiology of Physical Activities
Course Code
LSPA_180
Branch of Science
Health sciences
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Pedagogy; Sports Trainer
LQF
All Levels
Study Type And Form
Full-Time; Part-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Inese Pontaga
Structure Unit Manager
Uģis Ciematnieks
Structural Unit
Department of Sports Theory
Contacts
LSPA, Brīvības gatve 333, Riga, LV-1006
About Study Course
Objective
To teach basic concepts of sports physiology, to analyse body adaptation mechanisms and factors determining ability to work in different types of sports loads, to develop skills in determining and evaluating physiological indicators related to physical activity.
Preliminary Knowledge
Study courses mastered: Teacher’s Professional Skills, Civil Protection, State Security and Environmental Protection for Sustainable Development, Teaching and Learning in the Context of Diversity, Business and Accounting, Educational Psychology for Teachers, Biomechanics and Ergonomics, Human Anatomy and Dynamic Anatomy, Management of Educational Institution, Foundations and Methodology of Obstacle Overcoming, Foundations and Methodology of Moving Objects, Foundations and Methodology of Moving, Inclusive and Special Sports Education, Health Promoting Physical Activities, General and Physical Activity Biochemistry, General and Age-Specific Physiology, Movement Games, Outdoor Activities: Content and Methodology of Moving with Sports Equipment and/or Sport in Multicultural Environment and Olympic Education, Foundations and Methodology of Swimming, History of Sport, Philosophy of Sport.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.1. To demonstrate comprehensive and sport-specific knowledge of basic and specialised facts, theories, patterns of acute and chronic effects of physical loads of varying duration and intensity on the human body, adaptation of the human body to different external environmental conditions. 2. About bioenergy of muscles, physiological indicators of physical load intensity, functional changes in the body during the conditions specific to sport, functional changes in the body in sports loads of different nature and intensity, and mechanisms for adapting the body to systematic training loads, physiological justification for developing physical characteristics and learning of movement skills, signs of overtraining, characteristics of the body’s capacity to work under different external environmental conditions.
Skills
1.1. Skills to determine and interpret physiological indicators, human physical characteristics, the use of these skills in the planning of training and sports classes. 2. To take responsibility and initiative when doing study and laboratory work individually, in a team or managing the work of other people when jointly developing laboratory work. 3. To determine the latent period of simple and complex movement reactions, perform flexibility and balance tests, muscle strength and power tests, measure athletes’ endurance using step tests and load tests on the cycle ergometer, determine the incorporation of circulatory and respiratory systems into physical loads, determine the maximum oxygen consumption by indirect method (pulse rate) by performing a step incremental intensity load on a cycle ergometer.
Competences
1.6. Students learn competences to determine physical characteristics indicators and compare with literature data, assess athlete’s degree of cardiorespiratory system training. 7. To use knowledge of sports physiology in practical activity – by drawing up lesson abstracts for sports and health classes, assessing students’ fitness, etc.
Assessment
Individual work
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Individual work |
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To prepare for seminars on topics:
1. Energy of muscles and physiological classification of physical exercises, physiological indicators when performing loads of varying intensity, physiological justification for the formation of movement skills.
2. Physiological justification for developing strength, power, speed properties.
3. General endurance, its indicators and physiological justification of training.
4. Adaptation and acclimatisation of the body to various external environmental conditions. Prepare for the examination.
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Examination
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Knowledge, skills and competences of students are assessed in four test works for which points are obtained.
1. Energy of muscles, physiological indicators when performing loads of varying intensity, physiological justification for the formation of movement skills.
2. Physiological justification for developing strength, power, strength endurance and speed properties.
3. General endurance, its indicators and physiological justification of training.
4. Adaptation and acclimatisation of the body to various external environmental conditions.
Skills and competences of students are assessed in three laboratory works – determining the incorporation of circulatory and respiratory systems when doing physical exercise and the recovery of their indicators after load; the latent period of a simple and complex movement reactions, maximal isometric force, vertical jump power;
endurance skills of athletes using step tests and load tests on a cycle ergometer, to determine the maximum oxygen consumption by indirect method, by performing a step incremental intensity load on a cycle ergometer, to perform flexibility and balance tests. Students acquire skills: to prepare theoretical justification for laboratory work, to measure human physiological and working capacity parameters individually and collectively, to select appropriate measurement methods, tests and tools, to interpret them, to compare them with indicators of other athletes and literature data, to explain the causes of deviations from the norm and differences in physical capacity to work.
A differentiated assessment is provided at the end of the study course. Summative assessment of knowledge and competences in test works. All written test works must be passed. If a student is absent or does not pass a test work, the test work must be retaken and passed. For a student to have a successful final assessment, he/she must have successfully written all four of the intended test works.
In laboratory work, students should fill the measurement protocol individually. Conclusions should be drawn on compliance of the results obtained with the standard, and they should be interpreted.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Bioenergy of muscles. Physiological indicators of load intensity. Physiological changes in the body in various sports-specific conditions. Signs of overtraining. Physiological justification of learning movement skills.
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Bioenergy of muscles. Physiological indicators of load intensity. Physiological changes in the body in various sports-specific conditions. Signs of overtraining. Physiological justification of learning movement skills.
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Bioenergy of muscles. Physiological indicators of load intensity. Physiological changes in the body in various sports-specific conditions. Signs of overtraining. Physiological justification of learning movement skills.
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Bioenergy of muscles. Physiological indicators of load intensity. Physiological changes in the body in various sports-specific conditions. Signs of overtraining. Physiological justification of learning movement skills.
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Bioenergy of muscles. Physiological indicators of load intensity. Physiological changes in the body in various sports-specific conditions. Signs of overtraining. Physiological justification of learning movement skills.
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Muscle strength, ways of realising it. Muscle activity power. Strength endurance. Physiological justification of strength training. Speed, its forms of expression, physiological justification of development. Maximum anaerobic power.
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Muscle strength, ways of realising it. Muscle activity power. Strength endurance. Physiological justification of strength training. Speed, its forms of expression, physiological justification of development. Maximum anaerobic power.
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Muscle strength, ways of realising it. Muscle activity power. Strength endurance. Physiological justification of strength training. Speed, its forms of expression, physiological justification of development. Maximum anaerobic power.
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Muscle strength, ways of realising it. Muscle activity power. Strength endurance. Physiological justification of strength training. Speed, its forms of expression, physiological justification of development. Maximum anaerobic power.
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Muscle strength, ways of realising it. Muscle activity power. Strength endurance. Physiological justification of strength training. Speed, its forms of expression, physiological justification of development. Maximum anaerobic power.
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General aerobic endurance. Maximum oxygen consumption, aerobic and anaerobic change thresholds. Physiological justification of endurance training.
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General aerobic endurance. Maximum oxygen consumption, aerobic and anaerobic change thresholds. Physiological justification of endurance training.
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General aerobic endurance. Maximum oxygen consumption, aerobic and anaerobic change thresholds. Physiological justification of endurance training.
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General aerobic endurance. Maximum oxygen consumption, aerobic and anaerobic change thresholds. Physiological justification of endurance training.
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Changes in ability to work and mechanisms for adapting the body during training at middle altitude. Changes in ability to work in heat and cold. Thermal regulation reactions, adaptation mechanisms. Circadian biorhythms of body functions. Time zones. Desynchronosis of functions and adaptation of the body to another time zone. Peculiarities of the activity of the body in the aquatic environment.
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Changes in ability to work and mechanisms for adapting the body during training at middle altitude. Changes in ability to work in heat and cold. Thermal regulation reactions, adaptation mechanisms. Circadian biorhythms of body functions. Time zones. Desynchronosis of functions and adaptation of the body to another time zone. Peculiarities of the activity of the body in the aquatic environment.
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Auditorium
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Changes in ability to work and mechanisms for adapting the body during training at middle altitude. Changes in ability to work in heat and cold. Thermal regulation reactions, adaptation mechanisms. Circadian biorhythms of body functions. Time zones. Desynchronosis of functions and adaptation of the body to another time zone. Peculiarities of the activity of the body in the aquatic environment.
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Auditorium
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Changes in ability to work and mechanisms for adapting the body during training at middle altitude. Changes in ability to work in heat and cold. Thermal regulation reactions, adaptation mechanisms. Circadian biorhythms of body functions. Time zones. Desynchronosis of functions and adaptation of the body to another time zone. Peculiarities of the activity of the body in the aquatic environment.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
36 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam
PART-TIME
Part 1
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Lecture
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Bioenergy of muscles. Physiological indicators of load intensity. Physiological changes in the body in various sports-specific conditions. Signs of overtraining. Physiological justification of learning movement skills.
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Auditorium
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Bioenergy of muscles. Physiological indicators of load intensity. Physiological changes in the body in various sports-specific conditions. Signs of overtraining. Physiological justification of learning movement skills.
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Auditorium
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Bioenergy of muscles. Physiological indicators of load intensity. Physiological changes in the body in various sports-specific conditions. Signs of overtraining. Physiological justification of learning movement skills.
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Bioenergy of muscles. Physiological indicators of load intensity. Physiological changes in the body in various sports-specific conditions. Signs of overtraining. Physiological justification of learning movement skills.
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Lecture
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Location
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Muscle strength, ways of realising it. Muscle activity power. Strength endurance. Physiological justification of strength training. Speed, its forms of expression, physiological justification of development. Maximum anaerobic power.
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Lecture
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Location
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Muscle strength, ways of realising it. Muscle activity power. Strength endurance. Physiological justification of strength training. Speed, its forms of expression, physiological justification of development. Maximum anaerobic power.
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Lecture
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On site
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Auditorium
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Topics
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General aerobic endurance. Maximum oxygen consumption, aerobic and anaerobic change thresholds. Physiological justification of endurance training.
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On site
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Auditorium
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Topics
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General aerobic endurance. Maximum oxygen consumption, aerobic and anaerobic change thresholds. Physiological justification of endurance training.
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Changes in ability to work and mechanisms for adapting the body during training at middle altitude. Changes in ability to work in heat and cold. Thermal regulation reactions, adaptation mechanisms. Circadian biorhythms of body functions. Time zones. Desynchronosis of functions and adaptation of the body to another time zone. Peculiarities of the activity of the body in the aquatic environment.
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Changes in ability to work and mechanisms for adapting the body during training at middle altitude. Changes in ability to work in heat and cold. Thermal regulation reactions, adaptation mechanisms. Circadian biorhythms of body functions. Time zones. Desynchronosis of functions and adaptation of the body to another time zone. Peculiarities of the activity of the body in the aquatic environment.
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On site
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Changes in ability to work and mechanisms for adapting the body during training at middle altitude. Changes in ability to work in heat and cold. Thermal regulation reactions, adaptation mechanisms. Circadian biorhythms of body functions. Time zones. Desynchronosis of functions and adaptation of the body to another time zone. Peculiarities of the activity of the body in the aquatic environment.
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Study room
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Topics
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Changes in ability to work and mechanisms for adapting the body during training at middle altitude. Changes in ability to work in heat and cold. Thermal regulation reactions, adaptation mechanisms. Circadian biorhythms of body functions. Time zones. Desynchronosis of functions and adaptation of the body to another time zone. Peculiarities of the activity of the body in the aquatic environment.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
24 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
1. Brēmanis, E. (1991). Sporta fizioloģija. Rīga, Zvaigzne, 245lpp.
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2. Pontaga, I. (2014). Aerobās izturības attīstīšanas fizioloģiskais pamatojums. Metodiskais līdzeklis, Rīga, LSPA, 44 lpp.
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3. Wilmore, J., H., & Costill, D., L. (1999). Physiology of Sport and Exercise. Human Kinetics, printed in USA, 710 p.Suitable for English stream
Additional Reading
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4. Pontaga, I. (2015). Aerobās izturības treniņš. Vispusīgās fiziskās sagatavotības trenera rokasgrāmata (redaktori: R. Līcis, U. Grāvītis, S. Luika). Latvijas Treneru tālākizglītības centrs, SIA „DUE”, 148-167.
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5. McArdle, W., D., Katch, F., I., & Katch, V., L. (2000). Essentials of Exercise Physiology. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, printed in USA, 679p.Suitable for English stream
Other Information Sources
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6. The Physiology of Training. (2006). Whyte G. (Ed.), Churcill Livingstone, Elsevier, 246 p.Suitable for English stream
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7. Hoffman, J. (2002). Physiological Aspects of Sport Training and Performance. Human Kinetics, printed in USA, 344p.Suitable for English stream
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8. Housh, T., J., Housh, .J., & deVries, H., A. (2016). Applied Exercise and Sport Physiology with Labs. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, London and New York, 481 p.Suitable for English stream