Includes bibliographical references and index

Historical perspective: origin to recognition -- Exercise and responses of biologic systems -- Nervous system and movement -- Skeletal-articular system -- Muscular system: structural and functional plasticity -- Muscular system: the control of muscle mass -- Muscular system: fatigue processes -- Autonomic nervous system -- Respiratory system -- Cardiovascular system: design and control -- Cardiovascular system: cardiac function -- Organization and control of circulation to skeletal muscle -- Gastrointestinal system -- Metabolic systems: control of ATP synthesis in skeletal muscle -- Metabolic systems: carbohydrate metabolism -- Metabolic systems: lipid metabolism -- Metabolic systems: interaction of lipid and carbohydrate metabolism -- Metabolic systems: protein and amino acid metabolism in muscle -- Mitochondrial biogenesis induced by endurance training -- Endocrine system: integrated influences on metabolism, growth, and reproduction -- Exercise and the immune system -- Body fluid and hemopoietic systems -- Renal system -- Effects of exercise in altered environments -- Physiologic systems and their responses to conditions of heat and cold -- Physiologic systems and their responses to hypoxia -- Physiologic systems and their responses to conditions of hyperbaria -- Physiologic systems and their responses to conditions of microgravity and bed rest -- Genomics in the future of exercise physiology -- Exercise genomics and proteomics