Cycle Conditioning

Catalog description

KINES 6 introduces students to the performance of cycling as a lifelong activity that helps maintain and enhance physical fitness and overall wellness. This course provides the information that the student needs to understand, organize, plan and implement a physical fitness program that features cycling as a primary activity. The centerpiece of this course is a progression of individually-paced rides of varying lengths that are conducted over various terrains and potentially utilizing both indoor and outdoor training. Cycle conditioning typically includes a longer group trail ride utilizing designated cycling trails such as the Rails to Trails system. Students may experience opportunities to attempt individual time trial, interval training, and indoor, road or trail riding depending on the offering. Additionally, students are exposed to such topics as the physiology of exercise, cycling safety, goal-setting for personal health, principles and concepts of physical fitness, training methods to address different cycling goals, and nutrition and weight control. Students also have the opportunity to monitor their performance throughout the course using a variety of personal assessment inventories and instruments and are encouraged to utilize current technologies such as heart rate monitors and fitness apps. A student who completes KINES 6 will be able to identify the components of an effective physical fitness program and explain how cycling contributes to the success of this program, develop realistic fitness goals and design a cycling program to meet these goals, perform a variety of fitness cycling techniques, and understand how cycling promotes psychological well-being.