Fisiologia do Exercício

The second edition of ACSM’s Advanced Exercise Physiology was just released by ACSM’s publishing partner Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Peter A. Farrell, Ph.D. FACSM; Michael J. Joyner, M.D., FACSM; and Vincent J. Caiozzo, Ph.D., FACSM edited this extensive update. They collaborated with a team of internationally prominent scientists that revised the individual chapters, each an expert in one of the many topic areas addressed in the publication. 

SMB had the opportunity to ask Dr. Farrell a few questions about this update – especially how it differs from the first edition. 

SMB: What is the purpose of this book? 

Dr. Farrell: ACSM and the editors responded to the need for a textbook that bridges the gap between a first exposure to exercise physiology (undergraduate course) and an in-depth understanding of how each of the physiological systems responds and adapts to exercise. Each chapter summarizes decades of scientific inquiry about a particular system and presents a factually correct and current summary of how that system responds to exercise. 

SMB: What are the unique features that set this publication apart from other exercise physiology textbooks? 

Dr. Farrell: Most of the same authors from the first edition contributed to the second edition of ACSM’s Advanced Exercise Physiology. These authorities are outstanding scientists and educators. They are the people graduate students should seek if they want excellent information and synthesis of that information (insights) about how a physiological system functions during exercise. The depth of coverage of each system is extensive, and the authors have addressed the complexity of physiological responses to exercise. The chapters discuss mechanisms of how particular systems adapt to both chronic and acute exercise. Because environmental factors alter physiological responses to exercise, the book also includes chapters on the major environmental influences including heat, cold and various extremes in barometric pressure. This makes the second edition of ACSM’s Advanced Exercise Physiology unlike undergraduate exercise physiology textbooks, which describe an adaptation or response to exercise but do not explain why that adaptation or response occurs. The editors felt that, at the graduate level in exercise physiology, it is important to try to understand mechanisms that explain observations. 

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