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Personal Fitness & Wellness
PE101 | 3 Credits
Personal Fitness & Wellness breaks down all the things that affect your health from lifestyle and fitness to aging. You'll take a personal risk assessment and learn about topics like healthcare costs, weight management, flexibility, and more. By the end, you'll create your own health and fitness plan you can actually use.
Professor: Craig Goodman
About Personal Fitness & Wellness
What You’ll Learn
During this Fitness and Wellness 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 healthcare costs, weight control, flexibility, and stress management. The course culminates with the development of a personal health and fitness plan.
- Understand the healthcare 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 basic exercise programs 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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Our online Personal Fitness course helps you understand topics related to overall lifestyle, health, fitness, and aging.
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30-day Average Course Completion
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Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites to take the Personal Fitness & Wellness course.
Course Text
The required eTextbook for this course is included with your course purchase at no additional cost.
- 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, a weight room, exercise machines, a gym, or sports field/track, etc.
Course Checkpoints
Healthcare in the USA
- This tutorial evaluates the methods and costs of healthcare delivery in the US. Specific focus is placed on the quality of care provided as a function of cost and in comparison to other nations.
Health of the Nation 2020
- This tutorial reviews the major disease threats and incidence of lifestyle-related diseases in the US, such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. Specific attention is paid to prevalence within ethnic groups, in addition to other risk factors.
Personal Health and Fitness Assessment
- This tutorial guides you in assessing your own personal risk for selected conditions based on lifestyle and fitness scores. Fitness assessments and health risk questionnaires are used in this evaluation tutorial.
Health Benefits of Physical Activity
- This tutorial focuses on understanding the key terms associated with Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), its physiology, the role of activity in preventing CVD, age-related changes, and the overall benefits of physical activity as it relates to total health and well-being.
Cardiovascular Fitness
- This tutorial focuses on understanding the changes that take place as a result of properly designed aerobic exercise. Specific focus is placed on the cardiovascular changes that take place, including heart rate, blood pressure, and other related variables.
Muscle Fitness
- This tutorial focuses on the changes that take place within the musculoskeletal and hormonal systems as a result of strength training. Specific focus is placed on muscle fiber changes, bone health, balance, and preservation of function.
Exercise, Nutrition, and Health for Weight Control
- This tutorial focuses on understanding the role of exercise and nutrition in the maintenance of a healthy body composition. Specific focus is placed on energy expenditure during exercise and energy consumption through diet, and the optimum design of a diet and exercise program to control body composition.
Flexibility and Back Health
- This tutorial focuses on the role of flexibility and strength in the overall role of maintaining healthy posture and function. The mechanisms of strength and methods to improve flexibility are studied with a specific focus on maintaining back health and general function.
Managing Stress in Your Daily Life
- This tutorial focuses on identifying and addressing sources of stress in your daily life. The role of stress, both positive and negative, is discussed along with appropriate mechanisms for coping with stress.
Designing an Exercise Program for Your Personal Health and Wellness
- This tutorial focuses on guiding you through the principles of exercise program design. Specific attention is placed on the choice of exercises, the amount of time spent on exercise, and progressions.
Substance Abuse
- This lesson focuses on drugs, drug use, addiction, and other issues that contribute to a loss of health and various health concerns.
Assignments & Grading
Your score provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.
Assignments for this course include:
- 10 Quizzes
- 1 Final Exam
This course has an open-book Final Exam. No calculators are permitted.
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- Stable internet connection
- Web browser
- Basic computer skills
- Any required course materials
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Course Professor
Craig Goodman
Craig has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Recreation Administration. He instructed the CPR/First Aid certification course for employees while working for a park district in Illinois, and also taught a semester-long CPR/First Aid course to undergraduate students when completing his Master's degree.
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Personal Fitness & Your Career in Healthcare
Personal Fitness & Wellness will give you an overview of the factors that influence our health and well-being. If you’re going into a career in healthcare such as nursing, medical assisting, or physical therapy, these can be valuable insights into how lifestyle choices, physical activity, and overall wellness can be used to impact patient care. By learning to apply these principles to your own life, you’ll also gain the tools and confidence to better educate and support the patients you serve.
Why it matters:
- Healthcare is one of the fastest-growing industries, projected to add 1.8 million new jobs from 2022–2032.
- By learning how nutrition, exercise, stress management, and other lifestyle factors affect your body and mind, you’ll be better equipped to make informed choices for yourself and to support the well-being of your patients.
In-demand careers in this field include:
Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapy Assistant, Medical Assistant, Radiologic Technologist, Surgical Technologist, Paramedic/EMT
How this course sets you up for success:
Personal Fitness & Wellness introduces core concepts like physical activity, nutrition, stress management, and healthy lifestyle habits. All these factors will be directly relevant to your resilience and your career in patient care.
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