运动机能学系的任务是创建，解释，传播和应用与运动，锻炼和人类职业有关的知识，其最终目标是提高人类健康，生产力和生活质量。运动机能学硕士专业范围包括生物力学，运动生理学，运动心理学，运动控制和行为，体育活动流行病学和职业科学。带有非论题选项的人体运动学硕士课程提供涵盖人体运动学领域和选修课广度的课程，并且可能包括最终项目。该学位支持对教练/教学（团队或个人），个人培训或健身指导的兴趣，或者可以补充物理疗法，运动训练或其他专职健康专业的实践，或学生的任何个人目的。
Exercise Physiology is the study of the biological responses and adaptations to acute and chronic exercise. Research and graduate training at UW–Madison focuses on elucidating: 1) the physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms underlying these processes; and 2) the influence of exercise on health and disease.<br><br>Dr. Diffee studies the regulation of contraction in skeletal and cardiac muscle and how this regulation is altered by perturbations such as exercise training, injury, or disease. Typical experiments involve measurement of contractile properties single skeletal muscle fibers and single cardiac myocytes and correlation of altered mechanical properties to changes in cell protein composition detected by biochemical and molecular biological techniques. Interaction with faculty and students from other departments (including Nutritional Sciences, Biochemistry, the School of Medicine, and the Institute on Aging) is encouraged by ongoing collaborative research efforts. The research of William Schrage’s laboratory is focused on how blood flow is regulated in muscle and brain circulations.