Individual Fitness and Wellness

Catalog description

How to perform and deliver fitness and wellness concepts and exercises to individuals across the lifespan. The purpose of this course is to teach students how to effectively communicate, motivate, and engage individuals in fitness improvement exercises and activities across the lifespan (children, young adults, adults, and older adults). Understanding client management skills, various fitness environments, and specific individual fitness exercises and activities from the foundation of the course. Initially, students will learn appropriate and effective client management skills and will explore different instructional environments. Throughout the course, students will work on acquiring skills for developing progressions of exercises across the lifespan. The students will become familiar with contemporary fitness practices and exposed to a variety of exercises. Students will learn the associated execution cues and how to demonstrate the exercise. Students will apply content knowledge to instructing individuals how to properly engage in fitness exercises and activities that contribute to one's overall wellness. Students will be able to organize and execute a developmentally appropriate fitness program for a client that targets one or more of the components of fitness including: cardiovascular, muscular strength, agility, power, coordination, and flexibility. The primary objectives of the course are to develop an understanding of how to create an individualized fitness program that is appropriate for the individual and how to interact with the individual to promote engagement in regular exercise and activity and successful achievement of goals. Students will examine how the age and developmental level of the individual relates to ability and individual fitness programming. Students will learn the correct form of exercise execution and progressions of exercises. Content knowledge is integrated with application of skills in fitness exercise and instruction and will be put to use in a learning laboratory setting which students will have the opportunity to engage in hands-on instructional experiences.