Course Outline

Module I Understanding the Etiology of Hypokinetic Diseases
Week 1
Unit 1: Life Style Choices and Physical Activity: An Overview
   
Module 2 Health Screening and Risk Classification
Week 2 Unit 2: Health Screening for Fitness Programming
Week 2 Unit 3: Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, & Cardio-Rhythm Assessment
   
Module 3 Principles of Fitness Assessment: Lab vs. Field Testing
Week 3 Unit 4: Developing Assessment and Program Design Skills
 
Module 4 Assessing Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Week 4 Unit 5: Equipment Calibration
Week 4 Unit 6: Cardiorespiratory Assessment Tests
   
Module 5 Assessing Muscular Strength and Endurance
Week 5 Unit 7: Understanding Muscular Strength, Power, and Endurance
Week 6 Unit 8: Tests that Measure Strength and Endurance
   
Module 6 Assessing Body Composition
Week 7 Unit 9: Body Composition and Fitness
Week 7 Unit 10: Methods of Estimating Percent Body Fat
   
Module 7 Assessing Flexibility and Designing Stretching Programs
Week 8 Unit 11: Definition and Nature of Joint Flexibility
Week 8 Unit 12: Methods of Measuring Joint Flexibility
   
Module 8 Designing Exercise Programs
Week 9 Unit 13: Interpretation of Assessment Results
Week 9 Unit 14: Developing Client/Patient Based Goals
Week 10 Unit 15: Developing the Successful Fitness Program (Part 1)
Week 11 Unit 16: Developing the Successful Fitness Program (Part 2)
   
Module 9 Final Project
Week 12 Final Project: Designing Your Personal Exercise Prescription