Exercise physiology is the study of how the body responds and adapts to physical exercise and activity. It examines changes in metabolism, physiology of areas like the heart and lungs, and cellular structural changes. The field studies both the acute responses during a single bout of exercise and chronic adaptations that occur with long-term training. Exercise physiology helps explain exercise recommendations for different populations and how to enhance health, fitness, and athletic performance.

1. EXERCISE
PHYSIOLOGY

2. INTRODUCTION
It is what happens to the body as it
exercises a single time, how these
changes are brought about, what
changes in function occur after
repeated bouts of exercise and how
these changes come to pass, and
finally, what can be done to improve the
body’s response to exercise and its
adaptation to training.

3. What is Exercise Physiology?
Exercise physiology is the physiology of
physical exercise. The effect of training on the
body has been defined as the reaction to the
adaptive responses of the body arising from
exercise or as "an elevation of metabolism
produced by exercise".

4. MEANING
Exercise physiology is the study of the body’s
responses to physical activity. These responses
include changes in metabolism and in physiology of
different areas of the body like the heart, lungs, and
muscles, and structural changes in cells. The word
exercise comes from the Latin exercitus, “to drive
forth,” while physiology comes from the words
physis (“nature”) and logia (“study”).

5. EXERCISE-PHYSIOLOGY DEFINITION
 Exercise physiology could be defined
in a nutshell as, “ a science that
elucidates (make it easy to
understand ) how, the human body
functions, reacts, adjusts and adapts
when exposed to varied degrees of
physical activity or training ”.

6. Some Other terms
 The study of the body's metabolic response to
short-term and long-term physical activity.
 The scientific study of the acute and chronic
metabolic responses of the human body to
exercise, including biochemical and
physiologic changes in the heart and skeletal
muscles.

7. Cont…
The scientific study of the acute and chronic
metabolic responses of the human body to
exercise, including biochemical and
physiologic changes in the heart and skeletal
muscles.
Exercise physiology is the study of how the
body reacts and changes in response to
exercise not only physical but cognitive and
social aspects as well.

8. Cont…
Exercise physiology is the study of how the
body reacts to physical exercise.
Exercise physiology is concerned with the
study of how the body adapts physiologically
to the acute stress of exercise or physical
activity, and the chronic stress of physical
training.

9. WHY STUDY EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY IN
Physical education
 To answer questions onWHY and HOW of things
 To select activities
 To get information about sex differences, age
differences, the effect of exercise on male and
female
 To explain types of exercise for different sexes,
age groups etc.
ALL the above are observed for the:-
 Enhancement of health, physical fitness of the
general population
 Improvement of athletic performance

10. CONCLUSION
The comprehensive delivery of treatment
services concerned with the analysis,
improvement, and maintenance of the
physiological mechanisms underlying
physical and mental health and fitness
through regular exercise, the prevention
and/or treatment of chronic diseases and/or
disabilities with exercise medicine, and the
professional guidance of athletes and
others interested in athletics and sports