REHAB 159

Course overview

Define and differentiate between key elements of muscle performance; strength, power, muscle endurance List key factors that influence the tension-producing capacity of normal skeletal muscle Explain the relationships among muscle fatigue, recovery from exercise and overtraining List precautions and contraindications for resistance exercise Describe principles and concepts of specificity or exercise, transfer of training overload, and reversibility as they relate to resistance exercise Describe the adaptation of muscle, connective tissue and bone to resistive exercise State general principles for application and implementation of resistance exercise