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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Science of Exercise by University of Colorado Boulder

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About the Course

Learners who complete Science of Exercise will have an improved physiological understanding of how your body responds to exercise, and will be able to identify behaviors, choices, and environments that impact your health and training. You will explore a number of significant adjustments required by your body in order to properly respond to the physical stress of exercise, including changes in carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism, nutritional considerations, causes of muscle soreness & fatigue, and the effectiveness and dangers of performance enhancing drugs. Active learning assessments will challenge you to apply this new knowledge via nutrition logs, heart rate monitoring, calculations of your total daily caloric expenditure and body mass index (BMI). Finally, learners will examine the scientific evidence for the health benefits of exercise including the prevention and treatment of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity (weight loss), depression, and dementia....

Top reviews

DB

Aug 10, 2020

This course was outstanding. There is so much that I learned that I will be able to apply to my own exercise routine. The videos were easy to follow and the quizzes tested the material thoroughly.

LM

Oct 16, 2020

Totally enjoyed this course. It was informative and helped me to understand how my body works so that i can adapt my training and those in my family so we can live a much better life style. Thank you

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By Yasiru I

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Jun 21, 2020

Very informative. Scientific explanations were really good. Would've been better if it had more information on training.

By Peckkee T

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Aug 19, 2020

Course assumes some basic biology knowledge. However, it was very structured and beneficial in terms of practicality.

By Hishaam T

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Aug 10, 2020

Well planned out course, covering useful information to give an outline of the mechanism and importance of exercise.

By Dmitriy M

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May 2, 2020

Good material, but the presentation is not that great. Somewhat monotonic voice just reading text from the screen.

By Jimmy C R

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Dec 11, 2020

Posee contenidos muy buenos e interesantes, uno vuelve a recordar terminologias claves para nuestra profesión.

By Vimal K

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Apr 8, 2020

I liked that the basics were covered quite well. I would love to join if there's an advanced course as well.

By terence s

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Jul 26, 2020

Very informative and practical course. Great use of research and practical examples to illustrate content.

By Carlos R R G

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Jun 7, 2019

the only thing i would like to add is that they could add a better nutrition part everything else is good

By Sunil S

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Jun 30, 2020

good to start for new to fitness but course can add more final assignments for better testing of course

By Alba R

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Aug 4, 2021

Me parecio muy bueno. Pero deberian ofrecer la opcion de realizar los cuestionarios tambien en español

By Marion G

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Jun 21, 2020

Disfruté mucho el curso y estoy agradecida por la oportunidad de poder haber podido participar en él.

By Sourabh K

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Jun 17, 2020

Detailed notes for the same if provided would be much useful in further propagation of the knowledge.

By Philip D

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Oct 18, 2017

Very informative. I bit over my head at times. But that kept it from getting boring. I learned a lot

By Satyen M

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Sep 5, 2017

Course was well arranged and mostly easy. I wish there were varied instructors and more graphics.

By Amolpreet K

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May 4, 2019

this course is very helpful for those who are very keen to know about fitness and other aspects

By Franklyn E

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Jun 20, 2020

It was truly an experience wonderful one and very much to do with this skill thanks Dr. Mazzeo

By Lucas A

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Aug 16, 2020

Great course, cover the basics with a lot of information, and great teaching and materials.

By Tim R

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Jun 29, 2020

Great information for personal use as well as possibly starting to develop a second career.

By Bishal B

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Mar 29, 2020

It was awesome experience to learn online with coursera. I just loved studying in coursera

By Mohit h g

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Jul 16, 2020

i like the way of teaching to understand that how regular exercise improves our health.

By Gabi S

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Sep 8, 2020

difficult for beginners to understand in the beginning but well created and explained.

By Z H

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Jul 11, 2020

Great material. Though maybe a bit short? I'd wish to cover more (the speed is great!)

By Humayun A

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Jul 16, 2020

Thank you so much for the course. It was well delivered. Learned some useful things.

By Shazin U

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Aug 5, 2020

This course helped me a lot to study about science that hidden in the exercises.

By Bruno

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May 25, 2020

Great course! I think it could improve if the quizes were had deeper content.