Endurance Training & Exercise Science

Connect muscle fibers, biomechanics, energy systems, heart rate, VO2 max, and resistance-training variables into one exercise-science framework.

Understand ATP and the major energy pathways that support explosive power, high-intensity exercise, endurance, and recovery.

Learn how resting heart rate, maximum heart rate, heart-rate reserve, and training zones can help organize recovery, endurance, tempo, and high-intensity workouts.

Learn how ATP powers muscle contraction and how the phosphagen, glycolytic, and oxidative pathways overlap to meet changing exercise demands.

Learn the basics of biomechanics, including muscle actions, forces, range of motion, neurological strength gains, and movement analysis.

Explore skeletal muscle structure, connective tissue layers, muscle fibers, contraction, and the training implications of Type I, IIa, and IIx fibers.

Learn how plyometrics use the stretch-shortening cycle to build explosive power, reactive ability, coordination, and better force absorption.

Understand progressive overload, recovery, adaptation, detraining, and how excessive training stress can interfere with performance.

Learn what VO2 max measures, how oxygen intake, transport, and utilization work together, and how aerobic-power training can improve performance.

Build a foundation in nutrition with macronutrients, micronutrients, hydration, glycemic index, food processing, and lifestyle versus performance nutrition.

Learn how to design circuit training using exercise selection, work intervals, transitions, recovery, and exercise order for strength and endurance.

Learn how macrocycles, mesocycles, microcycles, and different training-week types create a structured path from baseline fitness to a goal.