Personal Fitness & Wellness

This course will help you understand topics related to overall lifestyle, health, fitness, and aging. Course materials focus on understanding personal choice and the responsibility for health and wellness through lifestyle choice, among others.

What you’ll learn

  • Knowledge of health & disease challenges society
  • Understand how health & fitness change with age
  • Ability to create and follow an exercise program
  • Understand health care costs, weight control, stress management and more
Personal Fitness & Wellness

$79

Plus membership

3 Credits

All courses include:

eTextbooks

2 to 3-day turnaround for grading

Multiple chances to improve your grade

On-demand tutoring & writing center

Student support 7 days a week

$79

Plus membership

3 Credits

All courses include:

eTextbooks

2 to 3-day turnaround for grading

Multiple chances to improve your grade

On-demand tutoring & writing center

Student support 7 days a week

Personal Fitness & Wellness

$79

Plus membership

3 Credits

About This Course

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ACE Approved 2023

Our online Personal Fitness course helps you understand topics related to overall lifestyle, health, fitness, and aging. During the course, you will focus on understanding personal choice and the responsibility for health and wellness through lifestyle choices. Additional topics covered include personal risk assessment, understanding health care costs, weight control, flexibility, and stress management. The course culminates with the development of a personal health and fitness plan.

Course Outcomes

Understand the health care costs in the USA.

Understand the specific health and disease challenges within our society.

Assess personal health risk through evaluation of fitness parameters and lifestyle choices.

Understand the changing health and fitness challenges with aging.

Understand the basic response to cardiovascular and strength based exercise programs.

Understand the importance of flexibility and ‘back’ health.

Understand the causes of daily stress and selected management techniques.

Understand the basic role of diet and general nutrition in overall health.

Understand how to design and basic exercise program oriented towards addressing my personal health and fitness goals.

Demonstrate the ability to create and follow an exercise program suited to their ability and needs.

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Course Text

Prefer the hard copy? Simply purchase from your favorite textbook reseller; you will still get the eTextbook for free. The required eTextbook for this course is included with your course purchase at no additional cost.

Personal Fitness and Wellness

Concepts of Physical Fitness. Corbin et al. 17th Edition, 2013. McGraw Hill Publishers. ISBN: 9780078022579. Selected readings will be placed online and laboratory experiences require access to some basic exercise facilities, weight room, exercise machines, a gym or sports field/track, etc.

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