PEDH 155 - Fitness For Life

Credit Hours: 1
Lecture Hours: 0
Laboratory (or Other) Hours: 2

Prerequisite(s): None
Restriction(s): None

Corequisite(s): None

This course stresses an individualized approach to take students from their current level of fitness and move toward increased cardiovascular endurance, proper weight control, and increased strength and flexibility. The approach is designed to teach the principles of fitness and assist students in applying these principles to their own personalized fitness programs.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course: The student will demonstrate:

an understanding of the components of health-related fitness. (NASPE: 1.5, 1.8)
an understanding of how the components of health-related fitness influences daily function in children and adults. (NASPE: 1.3, 1.5, 1.8)
an understanding of the principles of exercise prescription as they pertain to each component of health-related fitness. (NASPE: 1.3, 1.5, 1.8)
an ability to develop a written health-related fitness program.
an ability to perform assessments of the components of health-related fitness. (NASPE: 7.1, 1.8)
an ability to correctly perform safe and appropriate activities to improve and maintain each of the components of health-related fitness. (NASPE: 1.3)
competency in using the Physical Best/FITNESSGRAM software as well as researching health- related fitness on-line resources. (NASPE: 5.4)
successful completion of the health-related fitness profile, including: construct a daily, caloric expenditure progress log of their fitness activities; construct weekly charts of their caloric expenditures, basal heart rate, weight control, push ups and sit ups, strength, cardio respiratory endurance, and flexibility; calculate target body weight based on their body density; complete a 24- hour caloric intake analysis on a computer