Exercise Training and Physiological Mechanisms Developing the Physical Fitness Level

Dear colleagues,

Systematically performed training can broadly and significantly affect the body's functioning. Depending on the type of training used, aerobic and/or anaerobic capacity develops, affecting the efficiency of the circulatory and respiratory system, the activity of the nervous system, skeletal muscles, metabolism, body composition, hormonal balance, and movement technique. Systematic training should increase the tolerance of fatigue, and improve the mechanisms of buffering, thermoregulation, and tissue reconstruction. The effort is organized into different training programs and assigned to different goals depending on the people who perform it: young healthy people, athletes, elderly people, or sick people. Among athletes, the goal of training is to maximize performances; among the elderly, the goal is to maintain physical fitness; and among sick people, the goal is to return to physical fitness. In each of these cases, training should be controlled so that the selected exercise load—intensity and duration—is appropriate for the training/exercising person. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

training and aerobic capacity

training and anaerobic capacity

skeletal muscles and metabolism

training and activity of the nervous system

training programs and their effectiveness

training fatigue process

body composition

hormonal balance

exercise/training load control

improving the movement technique

Dr. Paulina Hebisz
Guest Editor

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