SE203: Discuss How/Whether Exercise Physiology can Explain the Limits of Performance: Exercise Physiology Assignment, UOE, Singapore

Your task

In a sport/sports person (i.e. what sport rather than a named athlete) of your choice:

• discuss how/whether exercise physiology can explain the limits of performance for that individual (in different types of exercise).
• Discuss the long term adaptations that occur in the cardiovascular, respiratory, and muscular systems.

Task: PART 1

• Describe the sport- including aim, duration, activities, opponents
• Identify the physiological components/demands of the sport- sprinting- anaerobic and power; football: anaerobic, aerobic, power; marathon runner: aerobic
• Decide on the relative importance of the different components
• This forms part of your pre-introduction

PART 2

• Using evidence expand on physiological demands by describing the acute responses that occur in cardiovascular, respiratory, muscular and control systems during that sporting event
• Discuss what might be limiting the athlete from going any faster, further, longer, higher, etc
• Using evidence describes how training adaptations to the different (CVS, resp, muscular) may occur and thus have enhanced the performance of the athlete in that sport. what systems may be most affected? Which are the most important in determining performance? What systems would need to improve, why and how?
• Comparisons to the sedentary individual may help or by using evidence describe the effects on that athlete of detraining- what systems may be most affected?