Chapter 6 Adaptations to Aerobic Training

Identify and describe the impact of chronic aerobic endurance training on the physiological characteristics of the cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous, muscular, bone, connective tissue, and endocrine systems

Recognize the interaction between aerobic endurance training and optimizing physiological responses of all the body

Identify and describe external factors that influence adaptations to chronic aerobic exercise including altitude, heat, smoking, and vaping, blood doping, and detraining

Recognize the physiological differences between altitude training and heat acclimation

What are the chronic adaptations to aerobic exercise?

• What are the cardiovascular adaptations?

• What are the respiratory adaptations?

• What are the neural adaptations?

• What are the muscular adaptations?

• What are the bone and connective tissue adaptations?

• What are the endocrine adaptations?

What are the adaptations to aerobic endurance training?

What are the external and individual factors influencing adaptations to aerobic training?

• What are altitude adaptations?

• What is heat acclimatization?

• Altitude or heat: Which protocol should an athlete undertake?

• What is hypertoxic breathing?

• What are the effects of smoking and vaping?

• What is blood doping and what are its effects?

• What is genetic potential and its effects?

What does detraining look like for aerobic training?