AQA AS PE - PED1 - Big Picture of Applied Exercise Physiology and Training topics

Overview of the topics taught on the AQA AS PE course. Links between the training and physiology components of PED1. Useful for showing how the topics fit together and a 'Big Picture' of the physiological and training components. Can be used to assist planning so you know which topics follow on from others and how they link.

Training - interval training, workload intensities, circuit training, strength training, weight training, sprint training, Borg Scale, heart rate monitoring, fitness testing, validity and reliability, multi-stage fitness test, bleep test, 30m sprint test, vertical jump, Sargent jump, sit and reach test

Applied physiology - anatomy and physiology, exercise physiology, heart, cardiac, cardiac cycle, cardiac drift, Starling's Law, respiratory system, muscles, muscular system, venous return, veins, capillaries, arteries, muscle pump action, skeletal muscle pump action, joints, bones, movement analysis, levers, planes and axis, sino-atrial node, SA node, conduction system, carbon dioxide, transport of blood gases, oxygen transport, haemoglobin, myoglobin, gas exchange,