Aims & Learning Objectives:
To introduce the physiological adaptations that occur as a result of regular exercise and to understand how these adaptations may improve health, fitness and well-being.
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
Understand some of the relationships between exercise, health and fitness.
Determine key aspects of health and fitness in a wide range of the population including specific groups such as the sedentary and elderly.
Evaluate the results of certain health/fitness tests and begin to prescribe forms of exercise that would elicit improvements in health/fitness.
Content:
Factors limiting health and fitness. Work tests to evaluate cardiorepiratory fitness. Training for Health and Fitness. Exercise and the musculoskeletal and Neauromuscular systems. Body composition Nutrition and Health.
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