Modiwl JXH-3076:
Performing in Extreme Environm
Performing in Extreme Environments 2024-25
JXH-3076
2024-25
School Of Human And Behavioural Sciences
Module - Semester 2
10 credits
Module Organiser:
Germano Gallicchio
Overview
During the module, you will develop an understanding of how various environmental stressors (hot, cold, altitude) influence resting and exercising physiological responses, exercise performance, the immune system, illness, and injury of active persons such as athletes, explorers, and armed and emergency service personnel.
Based on our experiences working with sports and industry (e.g., Sport Wales, the Army, Outlook Expeditions, Blizzard Survival), you will learn about evidence-based practical strategies that can improve performance and health of those performing in extreme environments. We will also reveal how an understanding of environmental physiology might be harnessed to improve the health of the general population.
You will also have the opportunity during this module to advance your critical analysis, problem-solving, and communication skills as we support you in lectures and seminars to create a poster that appraises the environment's effect on human performance and health, and a concise written report that proposes a practical strategy to improve performance and health in extreme environments.
Application of these strategies and skills could help aid your own and others' performance and health!
Learning Outcomes
- apply knowledge of the human body to examine how it adapts to environmental stress to influence exercise performance and health
- appraise the environment's effect on human performance and health
- critique and select an evidence-based practical strategy to optimise human performance and health in extreme environments
- research and develop a written report that proposes an evidence-based practical strategy to improve human performance and health