Title: Explain the body's response to exercise throughout the lifespan.
Course: Sports Medicine/Athletic Training II (14062-II) > Section: Understanding Exercise Physiology

Explanation should include the human body’s response to exercise in each of the stages of life (i.e., child, adult, elderly).

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are the stages of life?
- How does exercise over a lifespan affect the human body? How does exercise over a lifespan affect a male? How does exercise over a lifespan affect a female?
- How have changes in equipment over time varied the body’s response to exercise?
- How have changes in rules of activities over time varied the body’s response to exercise?
- How have the changes in the role of exercise in an active person’s life varied the body’s response to exercise?

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Chapter 16 Chronic Health Conditions and Physical or Functional Limitations

- Define and describe the cause and symptoms of selected chronic health conditions.
- Describe the characteristics of selected health and age-related physical and functional limitations to exercise.
- Recognize how the conditions discussed in this chapter affect exercise training variables within the OPT™ model.
- Recognize how acute and chronic responses to exercise vary in clients with chronic health conditions or physical or functional limitations compared with apparently healthy clients.
- Describe how to modify program design for clients with chronic health and physical or functional limitations.

Chapter 19 Lifestyle Modification and Behavioral Coaching

- Describe the characteristics of a positive client experience.
- Understand the stages of change model.
- Describe characteristics of what effective communication skills are.
- Describe the elements of effective SMART goal-setting techniques.