Current Topics in Exercise Science and Human Performance Assignment

This document presents a comprehensive solution to an Exercise Science assignment, addressing key concepts within the field. The assignment explores the current goals of exercise science, emphasizing the improvement of strength, endurance, and functional independence through exercise therapy. It also examines the role of sports nutrition in enhancing body composition and performance. The solution includes a discussion of statistical methods used in exercise therapy, highlighting the importance of T-tests and correlational methods. Additionally, it analyzes the evolution of professions related to exercise science and addresses the potential for role confusion among professionals. The assignment also features a review of relevant research articles, analyzing their findings on student fitness levels, exercise training versus pharmacotherapies, and the effectiveness of exercise as medicine. Finally, it offers insights on how to apply exercise therapy in a healthcare setting. The document is well-referenced, supporting the key concepts of exercise science.

Running head: Exercise Science
Exercise Science
Name of Student
Name of University
Author note

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Response to question 1:
The current goal of exercise science is to understand the various aspects of the
physical and well-being needs of the individuals and address them chiefly with the aid of
exercise therapy. The goal of the exercise science is to primarily improve strength, endurance
and power. The aim and goal of the exercise science is to develop a functional independence
in the subject and this relates more in the field of health sciences and therapeutic field, where
the patients has undergone some physical trauma or dysfunction which has resulted in the
reduction of the physical functioning of the patient and decline in functional independence
(Delgado-Floody et al., 2019). The goal of the exercise science is to better the neural
recruitment for effective movement.
Response to question 2:
Sports nutrition helps to improve the lean body mass of the human body and increase
the functioning of the body in a sustainable way, to function better in a situation of need and
demand. The sport nutrition are rich in carbohydrates, proteins and vitamins and are targeted
at eliminating the excess adipose tissue of the body. The supplementation help in maintain
the nutritional reserve of the body after the muscles has been broken in the process of
vigorous exercise.
Response to question 3:
T-tests and the correlational methods are the most important statistical methods in
calculations of exercise therapy. In order to understand the changes in parameters of strength,
endurance and power – the statistical methods are used.

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Exercise Science
Response to question 4:
There has been increasing number of professions that pertains to the use of exercise
therapy as a therapeutic and sports science and physical therapy in addition to the
occupational therapy which has become one of the major intervening undergraduate
professions in the modern age. In addition there are exercise physiologists who are
postgraduate professionals and due to so many emergence of so many professions, there has
been increase in the role confusion of the individuals but the specific training of the
individual professionals must be undertaken in order to deliver a more quality care to the
patients and the sport persons, in the rehabilitation phase.
Response to question 5:
Article name Author name Year of publication Findings
The Evaluation of
Student Fitness Levels
in Exercise Science and
Physical Education
Teacher Education
Programs. Quest, 71(1)
, 21-41.
Blackshear, T. B.,
Barton, A. T., &
Moxley, J.
2019. The study finds out
that if the students
are aware of the
health and
wellbeing, they
tend to respond
better to exercise
science.
Relative Effectiveness
of Exercise Training,
Versus
Pharmacotherapies in
Giuliano, C.,
Samuel, R., Falls,
R., Woessner, M.,
Hopper, I., Vogrin,
2017 It was found that
medication had a
fast and rapid
action on the

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Heart Failure with
Preserved Ejection
Fraction: A Meta-
Analysis Focussing on
Exercise
Outcomes. Heart, Lung
and Circulation, 26,
S146.
S., & Neil, C. situation while the
exercise has long
term results.
Death by effectiveness:
exercise as medicine
caught in the efficacy
trap!.
Beedie, C., Mann,
S., Jimenez, A.,
Kennedy, L., Lane,
A. M., Domone,
S., ... & Whyte, G.
2016 The study finds out
medicine has a
better results than
the effect of
exercise science.
Response to question 6:
As a health care staff, to address the weakness and movement issues in patients – I
use exercise therapy and science to full effect.

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References
Beedie, C., Mann, S., Jimenez, A., Kennedy, L., Lane, A. M., Domone, S., ... & Whyte, G.
(2016). Death by effectiveness: exercise as medicine caught in the efficacy trap!.
Blackshear, T. B., Barton, A. T., & Moxley, J. (2019). The Evaluation of Student Fitness
Levels in Exercise Science and Physical Education Teacher Education
Programs. Quest, 71(1), 21-41.
Delgado-Floody, P., Latorre-Román, P., Jerez-Mayorga, D., Caamaño-Navarrete, F., &
García-Pinillos, F. (2019). Feasibility of incorporating high-intensity interval training
into physical education programs to improve body composition and cardiorespiratory
capacity of overweight and obese children: A systematic review. Journal of Exercise
Science & Fitness, 17(2), 35-40.
Giuliano, C., Samuel, R., Falls, R., Woessner, M., Hopper, I., Vogrin, S., & Neil, C. (2017).
Relative Effectiveness of Exercise Training, Versus Pharmacotherapies in Heart
Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Meta-Analysis Focussing on Exercise
Outcomes. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 26, S146.