Your paper should summarize what is known about the effects of exercise on a specific aspect of health. Here are some examples of topics you could choose: effect of weight training on bone health, effect of exercise on cancer risk, effect of HIIT training on immunity, impact of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome on athletic performance. You should pick a topic that is specific enough that you can dig deep, but not so unique that you wont be able to find information about it.
Your paper should address the physiological mechanisms that link your topic with exercise. For example, it is not sufficient to just present prevalence or epidemiological data (e.g. exercise reduces the risk of osteoporosis by xx%). You need to address how the exercise impacts body cells, tissues, and systems. You can present some data on prevalence, but it should be used as introductory. Most of your writing should focus on mechanisms. You may find that there are two or three proposed mechanisms, and in some cases, there isnt yet a clear consensus on which one is most important.
The length of your paper should be 1 – 1.5 pages, single spaced. You should use this template, and format your paper with the same font, font size, margins, etc. as seen here. You should have at least eight scholarly citations cited by number in the order they first appear in the text [1]. Place number citations in brackets in the text, and format the bibliography on its own page as shown below. List the references with the first three authors followed by et al. and then title, journal name, year, volume, issue, and pages. See the example below [2].
BIBILIOGRAPHY
1. Author1 FI, Author2 FI, Author3 FI, et al.. Title of article. Name of Journal. Year; Volume(Issue#): pages
2. Cowley JC, McCaw ST, Laurson KR, et al. Children Who Are Overweight Display Altered Vertical Jump Kinematics and Kinetics from Children Who Are Not Overweight. Pediatric Exercise Science. 2019; 1(1): 1-7
