Home Study Health and Fitness Course
Duration: 100 hours
COURSE STRUCTURE
There are 8 lessons as follows:
1. Fitness and Wellbeing
- Defining terminology
- What is wellbeing
- Emotional or mental health
- Structural health
- Chemical health
- Natural body cycles
- Why exercise
- Enhancing normal health with exercise
- Food combining
- Exercise at different stages of life
- Stabilizing metabolism during middle age
- Exercise for disease prevention
- Old age
- Understanding and managing stress
2. Fitness Physiology and Anatomy
- Anaerobic energy supply
- Lactic acid energy
- Aerobic energy supply
- Energy needed for different types of activity
- Muscles: how muscles move, types of muscle
- What muscle causes what movement
- Problems during exercise: fatigue,
3. Management of Fitness Testing Services
- Reasons for fitness testing
- Safety
- First aid
- Legal liability
- Negligence
- Providing protection
4. Designing Fitness Tests
- What should be tested
- Sequence of testing
- Body weight, Water, Fat testing
- Cario respiratory endurance
- Muscle strength and endurance
- Criteria for designing fitness tests
- Procedure for constructing a new fitness test series
5. Resistance Training
- Principles of resistance training
- Principles of exercise
- Overload principle
- Specificity
- Types of resistance training
6. Developing an Exercise Programme
- Features of an exercise program
- Typical design process
- Types of exercise
- Developing physique
- Cardiorespiratory endurance
- Structure of an aerobic training session
7. Managing an Exercise Programme
- Training response
- Exercises for specific problems: back, shoulders, trunk, arms,legs
- Weight control
- Energy expenditure
8. Leading a Fitness Programme
- Leadership concepts
- Leadership responsibilities
- Shared leadership
- Leadership communication
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
- Explain the relationship between fitness and wellbeing.
- Determine a persons level of health and fitness according to physiological data.
- Manage fitness testing services to a standard practiced in gymnasiums and health clubs.
- Design Fitness Tests to a standard practiced in gymnasiums and health clubs.
- Explain the management of resistance training, including equipment and exercise programs.
- Develop an exercise program.
- Manage exercise programs, including monitoring and recommendations.
- Effectively lead a fitness program, to any number of people, including large groups or on an individual basis.
WHAT THE COURSE COVERS
- Explain symptoms of common problems that may occur during exercise,including: dizziness, hyperventilation, nausea or asthma.
- Describe procedures to follow in response to problems occurring during exercise
- Explain how to cater for special needs of the following different demographic groups during exercise:
- Pregnant women
- The elderly
- Paraplegics
- Describe examples of different people who experience poor health, but a good state of wellbeing.
- List physiological characteristics which can be used to indicate a persons health and fitness level.
- Describe the structure of skeletal muscle the upper arm.
- Compare anaerobic with aerobic energy systems.
- Explain how cardiovascular responses may vary, according to varying intensities of specific type of exercise.
- Explain the physiology of muscular fatigue related to varying levels of exercise.
- Explain factors related to hypertrophy/atrophy of muscle tissue, in a specific situation.
- Differentiate between a fitness assessment undertaken by a fitness leader and a comprehensive assessment of health carried out by a health practitioner.
- Explain the purpose, including limitations, of fitness testing in a summary.
- Complete a pre-test screening procedure to identify risk levels in a client, using a standard questionnaire.
- Explain procedures to manage legal liability when conducting fitness tests in your locality.
- Demonstrate a series of five different fitness tests, commonly used in health clubs or gymnasiums.
- Analyse the results of fitness tests conducted.
- Define in one sentence each, resistance training terminology, including:
- Repetitions
- Sets
- Resistance (load)
- Repetition maximum
- Rest
- Explain different resistance training concepts including:
- Overload principle
- Isotonic contraction
- Isometric contraction
- Eccentric contraction
- Isokenetic contraction
- Explain different resistance training methods, including:
- Isotonic programs
- Isometric programs
- Isokenetic programs
- Eccentric programs
- Compare different items of equipment commonly used for resistance training.
- Explain the proper use of five different resistance training machines; in accordance with manufacturers instructions.
- Identify hazards associated with use of different items of resistance training equipment.
- Develop guidelines for the care of weight training equipment.
- Compare the use of a specified weight machine by three different people in an analytical report.
- Prepare using illustrations, and step by step instructions, a modified exercise program.
- Explain the exercise program you developed.
- Explain different motivational techniques which are appropriate to use during, fitness instruction.
- Explain different counselling techniques which may be appropriate to use during fitness instruction.
- Explain an appropriate style of leadership to use during fitness instruction in a specified situation which you are familiar with.
- Explain the use of teaching principles to explaining a specific exercise technique.
- Explain differences in approach to leading different numbers of people in a fitness session.
- Demonstrate leading a fitness session with a group of four or more participants
More Information on ACS Distance Education and our courses
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Sample Course Notes
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What learning method should I choose?
We offer three learning methods – e-learning, correspondence and online. If you are not sure which is the right choose for you, then click on the “Enrolment” box above, then “Learning Methods.”
How Long will it take to complete the course?
This obviously varies from student to student. Some students will have more time for study than others. Some students may work quicker than others, so it is an individual thing. We estimate that most students will take, for example, 4 – 6 months to complete a 100 hour individual module, but we allow up to 12 months for you to complete it.
Longer courses will obviously take longer. You can find more information on the length of time required and so on the “Enrolment” box, then selecting “Terms and Conditions of Enrolment.”
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