Human Performance Optimization
Course content
The aim of this course is to provide an in-depth understanding of strategies, and their physiological underpinnings, to improve sports performance in athletes. This involves both acute strategies (i.e., methods immediately before or during competition) and prolonged interventions (e.g., intensified training, tapering and hypoxia) that can enhance performance in already well-trained individuals.
During the course, the student will achieve:
Knowledge about:
- Adaptations that occur during periods of specific training and their importance for performance.
- Factors that limit performance and how ergogenic substances affect performance and training response.
- Research methods to investigate performance from a human physiological perspective.
Skills
- Proficiency in research methods for determining performance and fatigue development.
- Design and assessment of human physiological experiments to investigate relevant issues related to performance optimization.
- Be able to critically analyze research data pertaining to human performance.
Competencies
- Critically assess how periods of different forms of intensified training or altered training stimuli can potentially enhance performance in various sports.
- Critically evaluate potential translational aspects of scientific articles in relation to individual needs of an athlete. This includes the ability to assess the mechanisms through which training with altered or additional stimuli, intensified training periods, pre-competition recovery, or supplementation with ergogenic substances can enhance an athlete's physiological capacity and performance.
Lectures, project-based work, supervision and feedback.
Will be on Absalon before the start of the course.
Knowledge about human physiology and exercise physiology is recommended.
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
-
Oral exam on basis of previous submission, 20 min.
- Type of assessment details
- During the course, students, working in groups of 2-4, will
prepare a project report (up to a maximum of 15 standard pages),
which serves as the basis for the individual oral examination,
lasting 20 minutes, including assessment. The oral examination
consists of an independent presentation of the project work,
followed by a discussion in which the entire syllabus is
incorporated.
In order to acces the oral exam the submission (group project report) must be submitted during the course. - Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal assessors.
- Re-exam
-
The original report can be used or a new individual report can be developed. The report has to be submitted one week before re-exam.
Criteria for exam assessment
See learning outcome.
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 26
- Preparation
- 80
- Project work
- 55
- Exam Preparation
- 44
- Exam
- 1
- English
- 206
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- NNEK24007U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
-
1 block
- Placement
- Block 4
- Schedulegroup
-
C
- Capacity
- 60
The number of places might be reduced if you register in the late-registration period (BSc and MSc) or as a credit or single subject student. - Studyboard
- Study Board of Food, Human Nutrition and Sports
Contracting department
- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinators
- Morten Hostrup (8-746f767a7b797c7747756c7f7a35727c356b72)
- Lars Nybo (4-717c65724371687b76316e7831676e)
- Jens Bangsbo (8-716968756e7a697647756c7f7a35727c356b72)
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