EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY AND COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES

The Exercise Physiology Laboratory conducts an Adult Exercise Research Program which is designed to improve the quality of lifestyle by prescribing a program of physical exercise founded on the basis of sound physiological and biomedical principles. This sensible, slowly progressive program is for the inactive man or woman between the ages of 30 and 60 who would like to be a subject in a study designed to improve levels of physical fitness and reduce coronary risk factors. The program of exercise starts at a low level of intensity and progresses in intensity each week.

Subjects meet as a group five days a week, Monday through Friday, beginning in September and continuing through August. New members that start in September will be trained initially as a group separate from the other ongoing group members. Both groups meet at the same time, in the same facility, and share the same instructors, but are exercised separately. In February, the beginning group will have progressed sufficiently to join the "on-going" class. The combined group then completes the year as one group. The following September the cycle starts again.