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High School Personal Fitness

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Suggested Prerequisites

N/A

Description

A fitness reward awaits - students will experience personal change, both physically and mentally, from the Personal Fitness course journey. The course will begin with the assessment of each person’s current physical condition. Workout logs will enable students to measure individual progress. Realistic goals will be set with the guidance of a training instructor to help reach personal fitness goals.Students will travel through the virtual town of Wellville, and learn about exercise, conditioning, managing stress, diet and nutrition. A fitness program will be developed and tailored to each student’s needs. By following personalized training principles students will feel energy levels increase, and gain confidence from personal success. Engagement in exercise and physical activity according to personal plans will lead students towards developing healthy habits that will last a lifetime.

  • Flexibility activities
  • Joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments
  • Principles and benefits of flexibility
  • Principles of overload, progression and specificity
  • Types of stretching and proper techniques
  • Trends in health and fitness
  • Health risk factors
  • Health & skill related fitness
  • Warm up and cool down importance
  • Common injuries
  • Importance of exercising safely
  • Stress and stress management
  • Warning signs of stress
  • Coping with stress
  • Short & long term goals
  • Cardiovascular system
  • Monitoring the heart
  • Heart rates
  • Pulse rate
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Cardiovascular activities
  • Principles of cardiovascular fitness
  • Benefits of muscular training
  • Muscular strength & endurance
  • Muscular safety precautions
  • Weight training myths
  • Muscular contractions
  • Muscular strength & endurance activities
  • Principles of muscular fitness
  • Functions of essential nutrients
  • Determining serving sizes
  • Reading nutritional labels
  • Importance of water
  • Classify body types
  • Components of body composition
  • Caloric inputs & outputs
  • Weight management
  • Weight loss methods
  • Eating disorders

NCAA-Approved Courses

Our NCAA approved courses are updated often. Please visit the NCAA Eligibility Center and use our school code to see all current eligible courses. The FlexPoint Virtual School NCAA High School code is: 850171 

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