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| 1. Description - |
| Study of physical fitness, training principles, appropriate exercise and health practices with application to lifelong health and exercise habits.
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| Prerequisite: None
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| Co-requisite: None
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| Advisory: Not open to students with credit in H P 48.
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| 2. Course Objectives - |
| The student will be able to
- Assess current personal health and fitness lifestyle
- Identify and explain how the components of physical fitness contribute to general health and wellness
- Analyze health practices and how they contribute to lifetime wellness
- Explain how nutrition relates to health and wellness
- Evaluate and analyze health and fitness trends and explain how they do/don't contribute to fitness.
- Analyze genetics and the role of the healthy adult
- Develop a variety fitness programs for lifetime fitness
- Analyze myths, fallacies and media distortions with regard to fitness/wellness
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| 3. Special Facilities and/or Equipment - |
| When taught as an online distance learning or hybrid section, students and faculty need ongoing and continuous Internet and Email access.
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| 4. Course Content (Body of knowledge) - |
| - Assess personal health and fitness
- Identify and evaluate lifestyle components
- cardiovascular risk factors
- addictive behaviors
- Set goals for lifetime modifications
- Develop a variety of programs to meet goals
- Components of physical fitness
- Cardiovascular endurance
- muscular strength
- flexibility
- body composition
- Health practices
- Exercise habits
- Eating disorders
- Drugs and alcohol
- Nutrition
- Guidelines for basic health and nutrition
- Weight management
- Nutritional guidelines for special populations
- Assessment of personal nutritional habits and eating practices
- Nutritional supplements
- Health and fitness trends
- History of fitness trends
- Current market/industry trends
- Safe practices and standards
- Genetics
- Family history and health
- Lifestyle and health
- Fitness programs
- Work-out components
- Principles of exercise
- Application of basic exercise principles
- Analysis of myths
- Evaluating products and services
- Marketing/media distortions
- Qualifying your experts
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| 5. Repeatability - Moved to header area. |
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| 6. Methods of Evaluation - |
| - Individual exercise program design
- Nutritional Analysis
- Personal portfolio
- Tests and exams
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| 7. Representative Text(s) - |
| Corbin, Charles B., Gregory J. Welk, William R. Corbin, and Karen A. Welk. CONCEPTS OF FITNESS AND WELLNESS: A Comprehensive Lifestyle Approach, 7th ed. New York: Mc Graw Hill Publishing Co., 2008.
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| 8. Disciplines - |
| Physical Education
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| 9. Method of Instruction - No content |
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| 10. Lab Content - No content |
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| 11. Honors Description - No longer used. Integrated into main description section. |
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| 12. Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing and Outside of Class Assignments - |
| - Reading Assignments: Weekly reading assignments from text and online sources ranging from 30 to 60 pages per week.
- Homework assignements: Weekly lab exercises. Each lab assignment focuses on personal health and lifestyle behaviors and covers assigned reading and lecture topics.
- Homework assignments include conclusions and implications of lab journals, and answers to duscussion questions.
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| 13. Need/Justification - |
| This course is a required core course for the AA degree in Physical Education, and is a restricted support course for the AS degree in Athletic Injury Care, It also satisfies the Foothill GE Requirement for Area VII, Lifelong Learning.
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