Health & Fitness I BRE101

Develop a comprehensive understanding of fitness Develops an understanding of the fitness industry, skills to explain exercise, and its importance to human health.Prerequisites: A first aid certificate (eg. St Johns)and an understanding of human biology (eg. Human Anatomy and Physiology); or equivalent. COURSE STRUCTURE

There are 8 lessons as follows:

1. Introduction to Health & Fitness
2. Exercise Physiology
3. Exercise Principles & Cardiorespiratory Programming
4. Biomechanics & Risk
5. Fitness Program Design
6. Delivering a Fitness Program
7. Safety, Injury and General Wellbeing
8. Fitness Programs for Special Groups

Aims

• To explain the nature of the health and fitness industries.
• To explain the relationship between the body and health, fitness & exercise, with reference to physiological processes.
• To explain the relationship between the body and health, fitness & exercise, with respect to risk involved in exercise.
• To evaluate body movements during different exercises.
• To design fitness programs, which are both safe and effective, to fulfil specified requirements of an individual.
• To deliver a fitness program to a small group of clients.
• To manage the wellbeing of participants in a fitness program, including safety and injury.
• To design fitness programs, which are both safe and effective, catering to needs of special populations (including weight control programs and programs for handicapped/disabled persons).

What the Course covers

• List the different types of health and fitness organisations and businesses offering services in your locality.
• Explain the philosophical basis of health and fitness in a workplace you are familiar with.
• Explain legal implications of providing fitness services in a gymnasium in your locality.
• Explain official systems of accreditation, registration, and licensing which relate to providing services in the health and fitness industries, on a local, state or national basis.
• Explain the status of professionalism, in the health and fitness industry.
• Develop guidelines for ethical behaviour of staff in a health and fitness industry workplace.
• Describe the history of fitness training in your country.
• Explain a physiological response to a balanced exercise program over a period of months, in an adult who has not regularly exercised for many years (i.e. what happens to the adult over the time period of the exercise).
• Indicate the likely response of the following different body parts to different levels of exercise:
  
  • Heart
  • Lungs
  • Back
  • Legs
• List physical symptoms, which can result from a lack of exercise.
• List risk factors associated with irregular exercise, for different types of people.
• Explain the mechanics of body movement during three different exercises, using illustrations.
• Analyse the movements observed during the three different types of exercises, performed by the three different people.
• Explain the general benefits of regular exercise, for 3 different demographic groups(eg. children, teenagers & young adults; or teen males, teen females and elderly).
• Explain the components of fitness in a typical young adult.
• Explain the different goals of training including cardio-respiratory fitness, flexibility, strength, and endurance.
• Apply the principles of training, to design an exercise program to suit your lifestyle, resources and aims.
• Design instructions, for two different series of stretching routines, for different purposes.
• Explain how the principles of leadership may be applied, in a fitness program.
• Explain how the principles of learning apply, in fitness program.
• Analyse different motivational techniques being used by a leader, in a fitness session which you observe.
• Survey members of two different health/fitness clubs to determine differences in attitude towards services being offered.
• Develop a checklist of criteria which are critical to customer satisfaction in the delivery of a fitness program.
• Demonstrate the leading of one or several people through their first session of a 30 minute fitness program, which they are unfamiliar with.
• List different options for screening techniques, to evaluate health in a gymnasium.
• Discuss symptoms of poor condition, including poor fitness, sickness and injury; which you observed in the video/TV program where different people are exercising.
• Develop safety procedures for a specified fitness setting.
• Specify a fitness injury you are familiar with, then recommend an appropriate recuperation process for that injury.
• List first aid facilities which should be available in two different specific types of health and fitness facilities.
• Compare different weight loss programs.
• Explain the general benefits of regular exercise, for different demographic groups including:
  
  • Paraplegics
  • Elderly
  • Overweight people
• Design a weight control program for a specific person.
• Design a healthy weight gain program for a specific person.

Develops an understanding of the fitness industry, skills to explain exercise, and its importance to human health. Prerequisites: A first aid certificate (eg. St Johns) and an understanding of human biology (eg. Human Anatomy and Physiology); or equivalent.