Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
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# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand how the body works in a scientific sense, and that a scientific view is necessary for us to study how performance in sport is linked to performance of the body
- explain the function of the heart briefly and looks at the importance of healthy hearts in sport, by looking at athletes and efficient hearts
- understand the topics of blood and blood flow
- understand the role of oxygen and the lungs and how they affect the sporting performance of an athlete, by looking at athletes, oxygen and the lung.
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