EHR501 Contemporary Issues in Sports Science (8)
Enrolment Restriction: Master of Sport and Recreation
Sports Science is a relatively young academic discipline with roots in the social and physical sciences. It is therefore not surprising that sports science has borrowed some of the common elements of the social and physical sciences and developed a set of underlying principles related to human performance. These principles are, for the most part, accepted as facts or practices amongst the sports science community and practitioners. However, there is now an emerging view that many of the accepted beliefs regarding human performance are based on erroneous conclusions and lack of evidence. Some of the accepted beliefs relate to such concepts as maximum oxygen consumption, stretching before exercise, principles of rehabilitation and anaerobic threshold. This subject attempts to critically evaluate the fundamental models and paradigms used by sports science with respect to the published literature.