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Prescription of physical exercise

  • Postal address

    Colombia

Organization profile

Research fields

Assessment of physical condition; Exercise at moderate altitude; Efficacy and safety of physical exercise

Organization profile

The objective of the hotbed is to develop health research competencies by encouraging the active participation of its members in research projects that interdisciplinaryly address problems related to the prescription of physical exercise for physical conditioning or sports training, including topics related to a healthy lifestyle.The members of the seedbed are students of the Faculty of Medicine and the Physical Education program of the Faculty of Education and graduates of the Faculty of Medicine and the Nutrition and Dietetics Program of the Faculty of Sciences.The tutor of the seedbed is Manuel Cárdenas, Professor of the Department of Physiological Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine and the co-tutors are Julio Bermúdez, Specialist in Sports Medicine of the Center for Psychological and Health Counseling and Christian Zea, Professor of the Department of Industrial Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering.

Área de conocimiento (OCDE)

  • Medical and Health Sciences

UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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