KINE 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Vo2 Max, Archibald Hill
19 Apr 2015
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Chapter 1 introduction to fitness and health. The question of how much and what type of food and exercise has been difficult to answer for thousands of years. Most information on health and fitness is from cross-sectional observational studies; this is problematic because it causes reverse causation . Collect data on a large sample of subjects (healthy/unhealthy individuals). One cannot infer whether the physical activity caused the individual to become healthier, or if the fact that they are healthy allowed that individual to be physically active. Better study design is to randomly assign individuals to different treatment and interventions and then follow them over time(randomized control trial, rct). The science of how and why people move. Maximal oxygen uptake or vo2 max is the maximal amount of oxygen an individual can take up and use for producing energy, also called aerobic fitness.
