Erschienen in:
17.12.2021 | Editorial
A century of exercise physiology: key concepts in …
verfasst von:
Michael I. Lindinger, Susan A. Ward
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Applied Physiology
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Ausgabe 1/2022
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Excerpt
The Editorial Board of the European Journal of Applied Physiology has endorsed a topical series in the theme “A Century of Exercise Physiology”. History tells us that the importance of exercise in healthful living goes back to antiquity: Susruta (ca. 600 B.C.) in India, Hippocrates (460–370 B.C.) in Greece and Galen (129–210 A.D.) in Rome (Berryman
2010; Shephard
2013; Tipton
2014). The Eighteenth Century saw exercise being promoted as a medical intervention, as exemplified by the London physician Francis Fuller who in 1705 published “Medicina Gymnastica or A Treatise Concerning the Power of Exercise, with Respect to the Animal Oeconomy; and the Great Necessity of it in the Cure of Several Distempers”(Fuller
1705). However these recognitions of the importance and power of exercise do not mean that the physiological concepts underpinning present-day understanding of exercise were understood at that time, or even recognized. It was only during the past 300 years that important advances in understanding were made using the scientific methods of experimentation, observation, careful recording of data, logical interpretation and inference, and the publication of results. These practices facilitated, if not dictated, the development of new theories and concepts in exercise physiology. …
