GET YOURSELF FIT! Live longer, healthier and smarter.
COURSE STRUCTURE
The course is divided into 8 lessons as follows:
1. Reasons for Fitness – Basic components of physical fitness, reasons for fitness, fitness testing and evaluating endurance.
2. Understanding your body – Body structure, cardio respiratory system and aerobic/anaerobic energy.
3. Testing your fitness Part A – Types of fitness tests, differences due to age and gender and evaluating different types of fitness tests.
4. Exercises for specific purposes – Types of exercise, developing physique, basic conditioning exercises, and exercises for specific problems.
5. Nutrition and Weight control – Nutrition basics, weight control and planning a diet.
6. Endurance and Suppleness – Assessing how supple your body is, exercises that increase suppleness.
7. Home Medicine and First Aid – Basic first aid, acupressure and alternative vs mainstream medicine.
8. Designing an Exercise Program – Designing a program, assessing fitness and designing an appropriate program.
WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THIS COURSE?
Students will carry out the following tasks in this course:
Perform different types of fitness tests
Perform a variety of different exercises
Interview an inactive person to assess their fitness goals
Determine which muscles are used in certain exercises
Plan a diet and a weight loss diet
Suggest exercises to improve suppleness
Contact medical training facilities to find out about courses offered
Suggest first aid procedures for a number of given situations
Design more than one fitness program
GET YOURSELF FIT!
Live longer, healthier and smarter.
This highly practical course helps you to understand what fitness really is, and enables you to develop a balanced fitness program for yourself or for people around you covering topics such as the human body, principals of exercise programming, and weight control.
