LESSON STRUCTUREThere are 8 lessons in this course: 1. Introduction to Health and Fitness 2. Exercise Physiology 3. Exercise Principles and Cardiorespiratory Programming 4. Biomechanics and Ris 5. Fitness Program Design 6. Delivering a Fitness Program 7. Safety, Injury and General Wellbeing 8. Fitness Programs for Special Groups 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. AIMS
· To explain the nature of the health and fitness industries.
· To explain the relationship between the body and health, fitness & exercise, with reference to physiological processes.
· To explain the relationship between the body and health, fitness & exercise, with respect to risk involved in exercise.
· To evaluate body movements during different exercises.
· To design fitness programs, which are both safe and effective, to fulfil specified requirements of an individual.
· To deliver a fitness program to a small group of clients.
· To manage the wellbeing of participants in a fitness program, including safety and injury.
· To design fitness programs, which are both safe and effective, catering to needs of special populations (including weight control programs and programs for handicapped/disabled persons).
WHAT YOU WILL DO - Explain the philosophical basis of health and fitness in a workplace you are familiar with, explain legal implications of providing fitness services in a gymnasium in your locality and explain official systems of accreditation, registration, and licensing which relate to providing services in the health and fitness industries, on a local, state or national basis.
- Explain the status of professionalism, in the health and fitness industry and develop guidelines for ethical behaviour of staff in a health and fitness industry workplace.
- Explain a physiological response to a balanced exercise program over a period of months, in an adult who has not regularly exercised for many years (i.e. what happens to the adult over the time period of the exercise).
- Explain the mechanics of body movement during three different exercises, using illustrations.
- Apply the principles of training, to design an exercise program to suit your lifestyle, resources and aims and design instructions, for two different series of stretching routines, for different purposes.
- Explain how the principles of leadership and learning priniciples may be applied in a fitness program by analysing different motivational techniques being used by a leader, in a fitness session which you observe.
- Develop a checklist of criteria which are critical to customer satisfaction in the delivery of a fitness program.
- Develop safety procedures for a specified fitness setting.
- Compare different weight loss programs.
- Explain the general benefits of regular exercise, for different demographic groups including:
- Design a weight control program for a specific person and design a healthy weight gain program for a specific person.
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