Exercise Physiology for Health and Sports Performance

1. Introduction
2. Nutrition for Health and Sports Performance
3. From Cells to Systems
4. The Control Systems: The Nervous and Endocrine Systems
5. The Movement Systems: Skeletal and Muscular
6. The Transport Systems: The Respiratory and Cardiovascular Systems
7. General Concepts for Sports and Exercise Physiology
8. Power and Power Endurance: The Explosive Sports
9. Anaerobic Endurance: The Speed Endurance Sports
10. High Intensity Aerobic Endurance Sports
11. Lower Intensity Aerobic Endurance Sports
12. Intermittent Sports
13. Introduction to Exercise Programming, Conditioning and Strength Training
14. Physical Activity Prescription for People with Chronic Complex Medical Diseases – Pulmonary, Respiratory, Cardiac, And Circulatory Conditions, Obesity, and Cancer
15. Physical Activity Prescription for People with Chronic Complex Medical Diseases – Neurological, Musculoskeletal, Metabolic, and Mental Health Conditions
16. Applied Exercise Physiology and the Environment

Exercise Physiology: For Health and Sports Performance brings together all the essential human anatomy and applied physiology that students of exercise science, physical education and sports coaching will need to know.

Written in a friendly, accessible style and containing a wide range of features to help develop understanding, this book provides a complete one-stop-shop for exercise physiology broken down into three fundamental sections; Foundations of Exercise Physiology, Applied Exercise Physiology and the new part three – Exercise Prescription.

With section one and two examining the theory, testing and practical applications of Exercise Physiology, this new section reflects the changes in the field by increasing focus on physical activity and special populations and helps provides a more complete course text for any exercise physiology course at universities around the world.

The newly revised book is key reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of Exercise Physiology, Sports Performance, Sports Therapy, Fitness and Personal Training and other related sport science courses.

Nick Draper has been a researcher and teacher at the University of Canterbury for over decade, but has a wealth of experience developed as a practitioner. Nick’s research has a translational focus with the aim of finding solutions to real-world problems. Nick completed his research training at the Universities of London and New Mexico where he received a thorough grounding in qualitative and quantitative methods, both of which he applies to research problems in his chosen field of exercise physiology.

Craig Williams is Director of the Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre (CHERC). He is also the Director of Research in Sport and Health Sciences and lectures on the physiological aspects of the degree programme. I am internationally recognized for research in paediatric exercise physiology. Professor Williams specialises in investigating the physiological responses to high intensity exercise and fatigue in children and adolescents (6-18 years). This work is translated into clinical settings e.g., children with cystic fibrosis and congenital heart disease, as well as, applied youth sports performance (particularly in relation to the long term development of young athletes).

Helen Marshall, PhD is a team leader and the health promotion degree coordinator at Ara Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her main teaching focus is around the multiple ways by which people can be enabled to take control of their health, while her collaborative research has specifically focussed on the many health benefits of physical activity for a variety of populations.