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Lecture Notes

Notes are available for selected lectures below.

WEEK # LECTURE NOTES
1 Introduction (PDF)
2

Review of chemistry, anatomy and physiology of the body (PDF)

Injury prevention (PDF)
3 Workouts; training your body; repair and maintenance of the body (PDF)
4 Nutrition (PDF)
5 Running clinic with Danny Abshire, Newton Running (Video on the assignments page)
6 Epigenetics (PDF)
7 Science of swimming (PDF) (Courtesy of Bill Paine. Used with permission.)
10 Energy metabolism (PDF)
11 Chemistry of cheating: scandals and illegal doping (PDF)
12

Supplements: legal doping (PDF)

Chocolate milk (PDF)
13 Chemistry of clothing (PDF)