Learn the Best Ways to Improve your Fitness
The human body is complex. It has many interconnected systems. To stay fit, we must find ways to fine-tune our body's systems. This can be achieved through appropriate exercise programs and a suitable diet.
But what might be optimal choices for one person's fitness may not be right for another person. We must assess things like age, suppleness, physical abilities, and nutritional requirements.
Develop skills to help yourself & others to optimise fitness levels
Study this highly practical course to:
- Understand what fitness is really all about.
- Learn about the human body, principles of exercise programming, and weight control.
- Develop a balanced fitness program for yourself or for other people.
Lesson Structure
There are 8 lessons in this course:
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Reasons for Fitness
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Basic components of physical fitness, reasons for fitness, fitness testing and evaluating endurance.
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Understanding your body
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Body structure, cardio respiratory system and aerobic/anaerobic energy.
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Testing your fitness
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Types of fitness tests, differences due to age and gender and evaluating different types of fitness tests.
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Exercises for specific purposes
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Types of exercise, developing physique, basic conditioning exercises, and exercises for specific problems.
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Nutrition and Weight control
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Nutrition basics, weight control and planning a diet.
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Endurance and Suppleness
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Assessing how supple your body is, exercises that increase suppleness.
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Home Medicine and First Aid
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Basic first aid, acupressure and alternative vs mainstream medicine.
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Designing an Exercise Program
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Designing a program, assessing fitness and designing an appropriate program.
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
What You Will Do
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Perform different types of fitness tests
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Perform a variety of different exercises
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Interview an inactive person to assess their fitness goals
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Determine which muscles are used in certain exercises
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Plan a diet and a weight loss diet
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Suggest exercises to improve suppleness
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Contact medical training facilities to find out about courses offered
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Suggest first aid procedures for a number of given situations
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Design more than one fitness program
Fitness is affected by both psychological and physical factors
Mental stress (pressures from situations at work, home etc.) can affect a person's fitness just as much as malnutrition or a physical injury. Stress is very often related to physical fitness. For example, a stressed person can have difficulty with muscles tensing or contracting when they shouldn’t or for prolonged periods of time, thus placing pressure on nerves or structures leading to further physical problems.
Allergies to foods, dust, even the common bacteria that can occur in everyone's internal cavities can pose problems to a person’s fitness level, or further complicate already existing problems.
The single most important fact to understand about human fitness is the complexity of the human body, and the fact that this complexity makes fitness multi-faceted. No-one can be completely fit by just eating right or just exercising. In a nutshell, fitness comes only by developing a balanced approach to life in all of the important spheres of life...
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Eat the right food – a nutritious balance of essential food groups
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Eat healthy foods that you are not allergic or sensitive to which provide all the necessary nutrients in adequate but not in excessive amounts
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Exercise all of the parts of the body regularly and adequately
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Know how to relax, to rest the body both physically and mentally
Reference Books
Buy a copies of our principal's books on fitness from our online bookshop.
Aquafitness by John Mason
Hard copy (paperback printed book) - http://www.acsbookshop.com/products/1611-aqua-fitness.aspx
Ebook (for immediate download) - http://www.acsbookshop.com/products/2244-aqua-fitness-pdf.aspx
Aerobic Fitness (paperback, printed book) - http://www.acsbookshop.com/products/1609-aerobic-fitness.aspx
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Who Is This Course For?
This course is about optimising personal fitness. What you learn here can be used as a template for helping yourself and others. The course is valuable for:
- People who wish to be healthier
- Sport and exercise coaches
- Keep-fit enthusiasts
- Dieticians
- Nutritionists
- Professional sportspeople
- Amateur sportspeople
- Life coaches
- Food coaches
- Health and wellness coaches
- Mentors
- Sports and leisure facility staff
Enrol to start your journey into a fitter and healthier life.
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