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Muscle function series: enhancing performance and fitness
153 students
Muscle function series: enhancing performance and fitness
Understanding skeletal muscle to enhance exercise program design
Created byThomas West
Last updated 5/2019
English
What you'll learn
- Macroscopic and microscopic skeletal muscle structure
- Mechanics of muscle contraction
- Powering muscle contraction
- Muscle energy systems
- How exercise can improve the structure and function of muscle, enhancing overall performance
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Course content
6 sections • 27 lectures • 3h 26m total length
Requirements
- An interest in enhancing human performance and improving functional fitness
Description
At the end of this course you will have a greater understanding of the structure and function of skeletal muscles. Particular attention will be paid to using this knowledge to create of better evidence based exercise programs to enhance performance and fitness. This course is for anyone looking to design better programs for themselves, clients or athletes. We will consider topics such as the sliding filament model of muscle contraction, muscle energy systems and muscle fiber types and examine how exercise can improve these aspects of muscle anatomy and physiology.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone wanting a better understanding of how muscle adapts and responds to exercise
- Coaches looking to improve their ability to prescribe performance enhancement exercise
- Physically active individuals wanting to better understand how their body responds and adapts to exercise
- Fitness and exercise professionals wanting a deeper understanding of how skeletal muscle adapts to exercise