COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is designed to guide students in developing a personal fitness program and to understand the basic tenets of health and wellness that can be carried with the student throughout their life. Lectures are supplemented with laboratory experiences and a variety of fitness activities. Students are required to participate in the fitness activities

RELATIONSHIP TO UNIVERSITY MISSION:

1. Preparing and aiding students to be good stewards of their bodies.
2. Helping students develop an integrated Christian personality characterized by a wholeness of body, mind, and spirit.
3. Transferring knowledge and values related to fitness, health, and wellness to students

PREREQUISITES:

1. Each student must have a completed physical examination record on file at the Campbell University Infirmary
2. Each student must complete a Lifestyle Questionnaire and Medical History form for the instructor (p. 23-26 in the text).

PROBLEM SOLVING EMPHASIS

Each student will learn to design an exercise and fitness program that is appropriate for their needs and fitness level. The students will also learn how to alter various lifestyle and behavioral factors to enhance wellness.

SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES:

Students who complete this course will be expected to:

1. Sufficiently understand the factors affecting one's overall fitness to score a 60% or better on written exams.
2. Demonstrate a commitment to improve their own fitness level by engaging in fitness activities outside of class time.
3. Exercise at their own target heart rate during the activity portion of the class.
4. Analyze their own physical fitness level and develop their own personal physical fitness profile.
5. Analyze their own lifestyle and associated behaviors and understand how various behaviors can influence wellness factors such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

ASSIGNMENTS:

1. Develop an appropriate plan of personal exercise and fitness.
2. Keep a record of regular exercise for at least half of the semester.
3. Pass mid-term and final exam.
4. Perform the 1.5 mile Run/Walk test in a time appropriate for age and gender.
5. Turn in laboratory reports as assigned.
6. Write a 3 to 5 page, double-spaced, essay on the following question, "How does physical wellness affect mental and spiritual wellness?"

TOPICAL OUTLINE:

1. Course Overview
2. Health, Wellness, Fitness, and Healthy Lifestyles: Chapter 1
3. Self-management and Self-planning: Chapter 2
4. Prepare for Physical Activity: Chapter 3
5. Health Benefits of Physical Activity: Chapter 4
6. How much physical activity?: Chapter 5
7. Lifestyle Physical Activity: Chapter 6
8. Cardiovascular Fitness: Chapter 7
9. Active Aerobics, etc.: Chapter 8
10. Midterm Examination I
11. Flexibility: Chapter 9
12. Muscle Fitness and Resistance Exercise: Chapter 10
13. Body Mechanics: Chapter 11
14. Performance Benefits of Physical Activity: Chapter 12
15. Body Composition: Chapter 13
16. Midterm Examination II
17. Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Chapter 14
18. Nutrition: Chapter 15
19. Stress and Health: Chapter 16
20. Stress Management: Chapter 17
21. Tobacco Use and Abuse: Chapter 18
22. Alcohol Use and Abuse: 19
23. Drug Use and Abuse: Chapter 20
24. Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections: Chapter 21
25. Cancer, Diabetes, and other health threats: Chapter 22
26. Evaluate Fitness and Wellness Products: Chapter 23
27. Toward Optimal Health and Wellness: Chapter 24

EVALUATION:

GRADING:

• A = 90 - 100%
• B = 80 - 89%
• C = 70 - 79%
• D = 60 - 69%
• F = < 60%

ATTENDANCE:

Students should attend all classes and be punctual. Tests and class work may be made-up only if the absence is excused. It is the student's responsibility to be up-to-date and to arrange for make-up work. According to the University's policy, excessive absences (15 percent) will result in automatic failure of the course.

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