Health & Fitness II 100 Hours Certificate Course

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Fitness and Wellbeing

• Defining terminology
• What is wellneing
• 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

1. 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,

1. Management of Fitness Testing Services

• Reasons for fitness testing
• Safety
• First aid
• Legal liability
• Negligence
• Providing protection

1. 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

1. Resistance Training

• Principles of resistance training
• Principles of exercise
• Overload principle
• Specificity
• Types of resistance training

1. 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

1. Managing an Exercise Programme

• Training response
• Exercises for specific problems: back, shoulders, trunk, arms,legs
• Weight control
• Energy expenditure

1. Leading a Fitness Programme

• Leadership concepts
• Leadership responsibilities
• Shared leadership
• Leadership communication

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.