Exercise Physiology

Overview

Exercise physiology is the scientific study of how the body responds and adapts to physical activity, examining the acute responses to a single bout of exercise and the long-term adaptations produced by training. It investigates how the cardiovascular, respiratory, muscular, metabolic, and nervous systems work together to support movement, energy production, and recovery, and it underpins applications in sports performance, rehabilitation, and the prevention and management of chronic disease. The discipline spans human and comparative research and informs the design of training, conditioning, and clinical exercise programmes. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to exercise physiology published in Sports and Exercise Medicine and related OpenAccessPub journals. On-topic work includes a paper on comparative exercise physiology framed as a worldwide goal, which situates the study of exercise responses across species and contexts and highlights the value of comparative approaches for understanding fundamental physiological mechanisms. Together with the journal's broader coverage of sports and exercise medicine, this material reflects the field's emphasis on understanding how physical activity affects body systems, how those responses can be measured, and how that knowledge can be applied to improve performance, health, and recovery across populations.

Research published in this journal

2 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

This page summarises published research for orientation; it is not medical or professional advice.

Related topics