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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.
- Explain the dimensions of health, wellness, and fitness and describe how lifestyle choices influence overall quality of life.
- Apply behavior-change and self-management strategies to establish, monitor, and maintain healthy lifestyle habits.
- Evaluate the health benefits of regular physical activity and recommend evidence-based activity levels for diverse populations.
- Interpret the reasons behind a personalized fitness program that incorporates cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular fitness, flexibility, and appropriate progression principles.
- Analyze nutrition and weight-management concepts and apply them to support lifelong health and wellness.
- Interpret nutrition information and dietary guidelines to make informed food choices that promote health and chronic disease prevention.
- Assess the effects of stress on physical and mental health and implement effective stress-management techniques.
- Understand the health risks associated with tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use and identify strategies for reducing harmful behaviors.
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Our online Personal Fitness course helps you understand topics related to overall lifestyle, health, fitness, and aging.
ACE-Recommended
ACE Code:
OOSL-0059
Flexible Schedule
21-day Average Course Completion
Transferred 43,400 times
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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. 2026 Release. McGraw Hill Publishers.
Course Checkpoints
Checkpoint 1: Introduction to Health, Wellness, and Fitness
- Checkpoint 1: Introduction to Health, Wellness, and Fitness
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 1
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 2
- Lab 1A Wellness Self Perceptions
- Lab 2A Healthy Habit Questionnaire
- Practice Activity: Concepts 1-2
Checkpoint 2: Self Management Skills for Health Behavioral Change
- Checkpoint 2: Self Management Skills for Health Behavioral Change
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 3
- Lab 3A Stages of Change and Self Management
- Practice Activity: Concept 3
Checkpoint 3: Preparing for Physical Activity
- Checkpoint 3: Preparing for Physical Activity
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 4
- Lab 4A Readiness for Physical Activity
- Lab 4B The Warm-Up
- Lab 4C Physical Activity Attitude Questionnaire
- Practice Activity: Concept 4
Checkpoint 4: Health Benefits of Physical Activity
- Checkpoint 4: Health Benefits of Physical Activity
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 5
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 6
- Lab 5A Assessing Heart Disease Risk Factors
- Lab 6A Self Assessment of Physical Activity
- Lab 6B Estimating Your Fitness
- Practice Activity: Concepts 5-6
Checkpoint 5: Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle
- Checkpoint 5: Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 7
- Lab 7A Setting Goals for Moderate Physical Activity and Self-Monitoriing
- Lab 7B Estimating Sedentary Behavior
- Practice Activity: Concept 7
Checkpoint 6: Cardiorespiratory Fitness
- Checkpoint 6: Cardiorespiratory Fitness
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 8
- Lab 8A Counting Target Heart Rate and Ratings of Perceived Exertion
- Lab 8B Evaluating Cardiorespiratory Endurance
- Practice Activity: Concept 8
Checkpoint 7: Muscle Fitness and Resistance Training
- Checkpoint 7: Muscle Fitness and Resistance Training
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 9
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 10
- Lab 9A The Physical Activity Adherence Questionnaire
- Lab 9B Planning and Logging Participation in Vigorous Physical Activity
- Practice Activity: Concepts 9-10
Checkpoint 8: Flexibility and Advanced Fitness Training
- Checkpoint 8: Flexibility and Advanced Fitness Training
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 11
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 12
- Practice Activity: Concepts 11-12
Checkpoint 9: Body Composition and Health
- Checkpoint 9: Body Composition and Health
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 13
- Lab 13B Evaluating Body Composition
- Lab 13C Determining Your Daily Energy Expenditure
- Practice Activity: Concept 13
Checkpoint 10: Nutrition and Healthy Eating
- Checkpoint 10: Nutrition and Healthy Eating
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 14
- Lab 14A Nutrition Analysis
- Practice Activity: Concept 14
Checkpoint 11: Weight Management and Healthy Weight Control
- Checkpoint 11: Weight Management and Healthy Weight Control
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 15
- Practice Activity: Concept 15
Checkpoint 12: Stress, Mental Health, and Stress Management
- Checkpoint 12: Stress, Mental Health, and Stress Management
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 16
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 17
- Lab 16A Evaluating Your Stress Level
- Lab 17A Relaxation Exercises
- Practice Activity: Concepts 16-17
Checkpoint 13: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs
- Checkpoint 13: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 18
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 19
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 20
- Lab 19B Perceptions About Alcohol Use
- Practice Activity: Concepts 18-20
Checkpoint 14: Sexual Health and Disease Prevention
- Checkpoint 14: Sexual Health and Disease Prevention
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 21
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 22
- Practice Activity: Concepts 21-22
Checkpoint 15: Consumer Health, Injury Prevention, and Back Care
- Checkpoint 15: Consumer Health, Injury Prevention, and Back Care
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 23
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 24
- Practice Activity: Concepts 23-24
Checkpoint 16: Toward Optimal Health and Wellness
- Checkpoint 16: Toward Optimal Health and Wellness
- SmartBook Reading: Concept 25
- Practice Activity: Concept 25
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Your score provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.
Assignments for this course include:
- 16 Checkpoints
- 4 Benchmarks
- 2 Capstones
This course has an open-book Final Benchmark.
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- Basic computer skills
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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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