ABSTRACT
The study of exercise is important to medical and biological engineers. Cognizance of acute and chronic responses to exercise gives an understanding of the physiological stresses to which the body is subjected. To appreciate exercise responses requires a true systems approach to physiology, because during exercise all physiological responses become a highly integrated, total supportive mechanism for the performance of the physical stress of exercise. Unlike the study of pathology and disease, the study of exercise physiology leads to a wonderful understanding of the way the body is supposed to work while performing at its healthy best.
