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Mar 29, 2024
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2021-2022 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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FSS 149 - Health, Wellness, and Physical Activity 3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours 3 lecture periods 0 lab periods
Development of skills for personal lifestyle changes that promote health, wellness, and fitness over a lifetime. Includes physical activity, special considerations, nutrition and body composition, and stress and health.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Explain how the dimensions of health and wellness interact and affect one’s health.
- Describe the four key factors that influence health behaviors and explain how these factors relate to the stages of change.
- Identify self-management skills that enable behavioral change and explain how the six steps in self- planning affect this behavioral change.
- List the health benefits of cardiovascular vs. resistance training and identify different training methods for each.
- Explain why proper posture and body mechanics are important to back health and list ways to improve them.
- Describe contraindicated posture and body mechanics and give examples of safer alternatives.
- Identify the basic guidelines for healthy eating and explain how these guidelines can be applied to weight control and energy balance.
- Describe common methods for assessing body compositions and list the health risks for obesity.
- Identify the major sources of stress, how the body responds, and approaches to dealing with stress.
- List the stages of the general Adaption Syndrome.
- Identify approaches for dealing with stressful life events.
Outline:
- Lifestyles of Health, Wellness, and Fitness/Behavior Change
- Self-management skills
- Self-planning skills
- Physical Activity
- Health benefits
- Cardiovascular and resistance training
- Flexibility
- Special Considerations for Physical Activity and Body Mechanics
- Proper posture
- Contraindicated movement
- Nutrition and Body Composition
- Weight control and energy balance
- Health eating strategies for fat loss
- Stress and Health
- Types of stress
- General Adaptation Syndrome
- Management of stress
Effective Term: Full Academic Year 2021-2022
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