1. Exercise assessement and prescription:
   1. Pulmonary desease;
   2. Diabetes;
2. Neuromuscular Pathologies:
   1. Miocardial infarction;
   2. Multiple sclerosis;
   3. Muscular distrophy;
   4. Parkinson.
3. Squeletal Conditions:
   1. Rheumatoid arthritis;
   2. Osteoartrhitis;
   3. Non specific back pain;
   4. Osteoporosis;
   5. Vertebral disorders.
4. Neoplastic, Immunologic, and Hemtologic Conditions:
   1. Cancer;
   2. Immune system and physical activity;
   3. Hematológic disorders;
   4. Chronica fatigue syndrome

1. Fitness assessment, risk stratification and exercise safety
   1. Risks and benefits of physical activity
   2. Health screening and Risk Stratification.
2. Fitness assessment methods
   1. Endurance, strenght and body composition assessment protocols.
   2. Description, instruments and methods.
   3. Hands-on in Practice environment.
3. Exercise prescription
   1. Endurance, strenght and body composition prescription.
   2. Prescription main guidelines.
   3. Training methodology.
   4. Hands-on in Practice environment.
4. Case-studies
   1. Case-studies.
5. Technology associated with physical activity promotion and monitoring:
   1. Pedometers;
   2. Accelerometers;
   3. Heart reate monitors;
   4. Accelerometry and heart rate monitors;
   5. Smart fabrics and sensers;
   6. GPS and geographical informatino.

The contents of this curricular unit will be identified and adjusted to the thematic and methodological paths that the student intent to develop throughout their individual formation

1. Introduction to Biophysics:
   1. Background of Biophysics;
   2. Study object;
   3. Biomechanical Principles;
   4. Bioenergetic Principles;
   5. Mathematical bases for the study of Biophysics.
2. Physics for biomedical applications:
   1. The study of the regulation and control of simple physiological systems;
   2. Nervous conduction;
   3. The regulation and maintenance of body temperature;
   4. Study of blood circulation;
   5. Study of respiratory function.
3. Areas of biophysical intervention:
   1. Kinetics and Kinematics of human movement;
   2. Relationship between the mechanics of the movement and its energy cost;
   3. Biophysics of specific sports gestures;
   4. Biophysical evaluation of the training state.

1. Introduction to scientific research;
2. Quantitative research paradigm (statistics: population and sample, variables, introduction to the concept of probability, descriptive statistics: measurements of location and dispersion, distributions, inferential statistics: statistical hypotheses, estimation of parameters, statistical tests);
3. Qualitative research paradigm (content analysis);
4. Phases of the research process (identification of the problem, critical analysis of the literature, construction of the hypotheses, variables, research design, sampling, data collection (observation, measurement scales, fidelity and validity, questionnaire, interview);
5. Research article (structure and standards for preparation, critical analysis of bibliography, presentation of citations and bibliographical references, tables and figures);
6. Inferences based on magnitudes in Sports Science research: qualitative interpretation of the practical / clinical effects of the results.

1. Models of Periodization: Classic (Matveiev, Bompa), intensive loads (Tschiene), concentrated loads (Verkhoshansky), tactical models for team sports.
2. Periodization of physical training: muscle strength and power; speed, agility and coordination; aerobic and anaerobic endurance; flexibility. Training simultaneously. Training and detraining: specific considerations.
3. Procedures periodization of technical and tactical training: integrated models framing the interaction between the physical capabilities and tasks of cognitive and perceptual-motor dominance.
4. The multi-year cycles and the athlete’s career.
5. Strategies modeling of competitive performance: theory of localized optimization of sporty shape and extension of the theory of states of high pace.
6. Quantitative Models for training, fatigue and performance: boost training (Bannister); models for Endurance Sports (Mujika, Chatard); models for team sports (Bangsbo, Reilly).
7. Overtraining.

1. Physical Activity: contextualization, benefits and recommendations for different contexts and groups;
2. Physical Activity: intervention perspectives, structural factors and intervention modalities;
3. Physical Activity, Health and Community and their interrelationships;
4. Community intervention: foundation for healthy populations and communities:
   1. Community projects and it application in different contexts and groups;
   2. Multidisciplinary strategies to increase Physical Activity;
   3. Supporting social and physical environments in the community intervention project;
   4. Active transportation;
   5. Models and methodologies of Community Intervention;
5. The relationship between Science, Theory and the Community Intervention Project;
6. Community intervention project: design, management and evaluation.

1. Characterization and regulation of metabolism and energetic substrates.
2. Nutrition and energy: quantification of the energy value of food, of total energy expenditure and its energy regulation for weight control, energy balance and body composition, and the relationship between diet and exercise.
3. Hormonal interactions: endocrine responses to different types of feeding and different types of exercise.
4. Methodologies for evaluation of nutritional status, nutritional value of foods and assessment of body composition.
5. Diagnosis and intervention for the prevention and management of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases through physical activity and exercise.
6. Characterization of the main eating disorders.
7. Specific needs of athletes in macro and micro-nutrients: energy sources; protein requirements; regulation of water content; and intervention strategies.
8. General dietary supplementation in performance and hypertrophy

1. Introduction to Innovating Technology:
   1. Acquisition and Treatment of Biosignals;
   2. Acting objects and Pedagogic Features;
   3. Equipment-User Interaction;
   4. Framing of Artificial Intelligence;
2. Product Design and Development:
   1. From Idea to Design;
   2. CAD Tools for Planning;
   3. From Idea to Materialization;
   4. Registration of Ideas and Patents;
   5. Development and Marketing.
3. Areas of technological intervention:
   1. Strength Training Monitoring;
   2. Physical Condition Assessment;
   3. Kinesiological Evaluation of the Movement;
   4. Screening and Diagnosis.

1. Introduction to Behavioral Change in Exercise and Health;
2. Theoretical Models Supporting Behavioral Change in Exercise and Health: Transtheoretical Model; Theory of Planned Behavior and Reasoned Action; Macro Model of Self-Determination Theory; Basic Psychological Needs Theory; Theory of Organismic Integration; Cognitive Evaluation Theory; Goal Content Theory; Hedonic Perspective in Exercise and Health;
3. Evaluation of constructs associated with theoretical models supporting behavioral change;
4. Behavioral Modification Techniques and their application in interventions for Behavioral Change.

1. Clinical exercise in special populations.
2. Exercise assessment and prescription for the aging population with chronic diseases.
3. First aid and basic life support.

a) Choose one of three optional subjects.

Project

1. Introduction to research in the scope of Sports and Health Sciences;
2. Design, implementation, management and evaluation of intervention projects;
3. Research methodologies in the scope and development of projects: methods of bibliographic research, transformation of an idea into a problem, presentation of the problem, study design, definition of objectives, sample choice and sample size;
4. Basic statistical concepts;
5. Use of statistical programs to analyze variables;
6. Final wording, in article format, properly sustained

Dissertation

1. The dissertation addresses a topic chosen among the programmatic contents lectured in the several curricular units, proposing an exhaustive analysis of a particularly relevant theme in the field of Sports Sciences and Health. This option must be justified and a strong investment in the scientific bibliographic consultation should be made, pointing to a document of 50 pages length, with a minimum of 50 scientific references. Alternatively, the student may choose to formulate a problem and approach it through an experimental, quasiexperimental, correlative or simply descriptive study. In this case, the document should point to a maximum of 75 pages.

Internship

1. This curricular unit has an eminently professional character, focusing essentially on the students’ exposure to the concrete reality of activities on promoting exercise and health in the community, so that they can apply and acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary and appropriate to a professional. The internship program is developed with each of the partner institutions and with the students themselves so that there is more involvement and responsibility on the part of all those involved in these internships. The internship assumes a tutorial regime, with a direct responsibility of the student to the orientated ones, and with flexibility in the way of functioning, due to the amplitude of themes and processes of approach to adopt. It is the responsibility of the host institution to designate the person responsible for supervising the student’s work; and to promote the activities mentioned in the plan of action by prior agreement between the parties involved.