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.

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Personal Fitness & Wellness

$79

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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

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 health care costs, weight control, flexibility, and stress management. The course culminates with the development of a personal health and fitness plan.

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What You'll Learn

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 Details

PE101

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Personal Fitness & Wellness

Our online Personal Fitness course helps you understand topics related to overall lifestyle, health, fitness, and aging.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites to take the Personal Fitness & Wellness course.

Topic Objectives
Health care in the USA
  • This tutorial evaluates the methods and costs of health care 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./li>
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, it’s 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 wellbeing.
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 system 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 of 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 on 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 choice of exercises, 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.

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


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, weight room, exercise machines, a gym or sports field/track, etc.


Personal Fitness and Wellness students also take:

Introduction to Psychology

Introduction to Religion

Introduction to Sociology


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