Lifetime Fitness and Wellness Pursuits B

Lifetime Fitness and Wellness Pursuits B is the second course of a two-semester series. The course is designed to build a foundation for personal fitness, physical literacy, lifetime wellness, and healthy living. Students will apply the knowledge and skills to demonstrate mastery of concepts needed to achieve lifetime wellness. They will also participate in a variety of physical activities to understand how to attain personal fitness and lifetime wellness.

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:

• describe training principles appropriate to enhance cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility
• exhibit a basic level of competency in two or more aerobic and two or more anaerobic activities
• select and use appropriate technology to evaluate, monitor, and improve health-related fitness
• design and implement a personal fitness program
• measure and evaluate personal skill-related components of physical fitness and personal fitness
• describe the relationship between physical activity and social and emotional health
• discuss how improvement is possible with appropriate practice
• identify and respond to challenges, successes, conflicts, and failures in physical activities
• explain how to accept successes and performance limitations
• evaluate the impact of the use of technology on social and emotional health
• describe how sleep is essential to optimal performance and recovery
• identify myths associated with physical activity and nutritional practices
• explain the relationship between nutritional practices and physical activity
• explain the risks of overtraining
• evaluate consumer issues and trends related to physical fitness
• analyze how nutrition, exercise, and other factors impact body composition
   

• Interactive Notebook – In the form of a small composition notebook, a spiral notebook, or loose-leaf paper kept in a binder.
• Pencil or Pen – In order to do well in the course, you must take notes, sketch diagrams and graphs, and solve problems when instructed to do so.
• Internet Access

Note: This course does not require a textbook.

Each semester contains 5 units and one final exam.

Each Unit contains:

• 2-4 lessons. Each lesson includes some or all of the following components: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate.
• Self-assessments to help you check your own understanding of the material covered in each lesson. You must complete these assessments in order to advance in the course.
• 3 to 4 graded assignments
   

The final examination is comprehensive; it covers the material from all 5 units. To pass the course, you must receive a grade of 70 percent or better. You can apply to take the Final Exam after 100 percent of your graded assignments have been submitted, and at least 70 percent have been graded and returned to you.

Format: Multiple-choice, online
Time Allowed: 3 hours
Materials Allowed: none

Topic 1: Applying Health, Physical Activity, and Fitness Principles
Topic 2: Positive Self-Management
Topic 3: Technology and Social Emotional Health
Topic 4: Lifetime Wellness in Practice 
Topic 5: Lifetime Fitness in Consumerism