Personal Fitness

PERSONAL FITNESS VRE103 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