Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. Skeletal System and Exercise
3. Muscular System and Exercise
4. Nervous System and Exercise
5. Endocrine System and Exercise
6. Cardiovascular System and Exercise
7. Respiratory System and Excercise
8. Digestive System and Excercise
9. Urinary System and Exercise
10. Immune System and Excercise
11. Integumentary System and Exercise
12. Metabolism
13. Nutritional Supplements
14. Training Principles
15. Temperature and Exercise
16. Altitude and Exercise
17. Children and Exercise
18. Women and Exercise
19. Aging and Exercise
20. Physical Fitness
21. Assessment of Body Composition
22. Assessment of Cardiorespiratory Fitness
23. Assessment of Muscle Strength
24. Assessment of Muscle Endurance
25. Assessment of Flexibility
26. Assessment of Speed
27. Assessment of Reaction Time
28. Assessment of Balance
29. Assessment of Agility
30. Assessment of Training Load
Authors
Pantelis Nikolaidis University of West Attica, Greece.Dr Pantelis Nikolaidis is a Greek sports scientist who has specialized in exercise physiology and exercise testing, ranked in the World's Top 2% Scientists list. He studied sports science at the University of Athens (2001); then focused on exercise physiology at the University of Prague as a scholar of the state scholarship foundation (PhD, 2008). He teaches Kinesiology at the School of Health and Caring Sciences, University of West Attica. Since 2008 he has run a private exercise physiology laboratory by collaborating with many sport clubs and athletes, mostly in the region of Athens and Piraeus. He published more than 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has been reviewer for more than 100 international scientific journals. His research interests focus on athletes fitness profiling and its variation by sex, age and performance level.
