HEALTH & FITNESS I BRE101 (FITNESS LEADERSHIP)

Health and Fitness Distance Learning Course

Duration: 100 hours

COURSE STRUCTURE
There are 8 lessons as follows:

1. Introduction to Health & Fitness
2. Exercise Physiology
3. Exercise Principles & Cardiorespiratory Programming
4. Biomechanics & Risk
5. Fitness Program Design
6. Delivering a Fitness Program
7. Safety, Injury and General Wellbeing
8. Fitness Programs for Special Groups

   What qualification will I achieve for completing this course?

   This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study.

   If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.

   If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.

   If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments.

   There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.

   Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.

   You can find further information on the examinations process by clicking on the “Enrolment” link above.

   You can find further information on other courses by clicking on the “Courses” link above.

    

AIMS

• To explain the nature of the health and fitness industries.
• To explain the relationship between the body and health, fitness & exercise, with reference to physiological processes.
• To explain the relationship between the body and health, fitness & exercise, with respect to risk involved in exercise.
• To evaluate body movements during different exercises.
• To design fitness programs, which are both safe and effective, to fulfil specified requirements of an individual.
• To deliver a fitness program to a small group of clients.
• To manage the wellbeing of participants in a fitness program, including safety and injury.
• To design fitness programs, which are both safe and effective, catering to needs of special populations (including weight control programs and programs for handicapped/disabled persons).

WHAT THE COURSE COVERS:

• List the different types of health and fitness organisations and businesses offering services in your locality.
• Explain the philosophical basis of health and fitness in a workplace you are familiar with.
• Explain legal implications of providing fitness services in a gymnasium in your locality.
• . Explain official systems of accreditation, registration, and licensing which relate to providing services in the health and fitness industries, on a local, state or national basis.
• Explain the status of professionalism, in the health and fitness industry.
• Develop guidelines for ethical behaviour of staff in a health and fitness industry workplace.
• Describe the history of fitness training in your country.
• Explain a physiological response to a balanced exercise program over a period of months, in an adult who has not regularly exercised for many years (i.e. what happens to the adult over the time period of the exercise).
• Indicate the likely response of the following different body parts to different levels of exercise:
  • Heart
  • Lungs
  • Back
  • Legs
• List physical symptoms, which can result from a lack of exercise.
• List risk factors associated with irregular exercise, for different types of people.
• Explain the mechanics of body movement during three different exercises, using illustrations.
• Analyse the movements observed during the three different types of exercises, performed by the three different people.
• Explain the general benefits of regular exercise, for 3 different demographic groups(eg. children, teenagers & young adults; or teen males, teen females and elderly).
• Explain the components of fitness in a typical young adult.
• Explain the different goals of training including cardio-respiratory fitness, flexibility, strength, and endurance.
• Apply the principles of training, to design an exercise program to suit your lifestyle, resources and aims.
• Design instructions, for two different series of stretching routines, for different purposes.
• Explain how the principles of leadership may be applied, in a fitness program.
• Explain how the principles of learning apply, in fitness program.
• Analyse different motivational techniques being used by a leader, in a fitness session which you observe.
• Survey members of two different health/fitness clubs to determine differences in attitude towards services being offered.
• Develop a checklist of criteria which are critical to customer satisfaction in the delivery of a fitness program.
• Demonstrate the leading of one or several people through their first session of a 30 minute fitness program, which they are unfamiliar with.
• List different options for screening techniques, to evaluate health in a gymnasium.
• Discuss symptoms of poor condition, including poor fitness, sickness and injury; which you observed in the video/TV program where different people are exercising.
• Develop safety procedures for a specified fitness setting.
• Specify a fitness injury you are familiar with, then recommend an appropriate recuperation process for that injury.
• List first aid facilities which should be available in two different specific types of health and fitness facilities.
• Compare different weight loss programs.
• Explain the general benefits of regular exercise, for different demographic groups including:
  • Paraplegics
  • Elderly
  • Overweight people
• Design a weight control program for a specific person.
• Design a healthy weight gain program for a specific person.

   

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