What is an Exercise Science Degree program?
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Host Question: What are exercise and nutrition science degree programs?
Guest Answer: An exercise in nutrition science degree program are gonna be programmed focusing on the best way to fuel our bodies when they’re under high stress and exercise size. And looking at different types of exercise and the different types of fuel sources utilized during that exercise and the ones that support that exercise size. This is a great degree program if you know from the get go that you’re interested in working with athletes or exercise supplement companies any sort of person really kind of looking for more performance related nutrition and not so much any sort of chronic disease or inborn era of metabolism. These are generally a healthy population that you’re preparing yourself to work with.
Guest Answer: An exercise science program is someone who’s studying more of like the mechanics of the body and how your body works and moves exercise science would probably lead into folks looking at physical therapy type degrees or exercise physiologists working with sports teams, whereas nutrition, science, is really just sticking to food and your body and overall health.
Guest Answer: You’ll still get the basic like nutrition science that you would with another degree, but this is looking at more anatomy and physiology, metabolism, nutrition for fitness, athletes, how to work with them, just kind of those types of demands, and how you would use that would be probably working in the fitness into afterward or some kind of health education with athletes.
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