Personal Fitness & Wellness
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This course explores numerous topics related to overall lifestyle, health, fitness and aging. Specific topics focus on understanding personal choice and the responsibility for health and wellness through lifestyle choices. Topics include personal risk assessment, understanding health care costs, weight control, flexibility and stress management. The course culminates with the development of a personal health and fitness plan. Throughout the course selected practical experiences, such as fitness assessments and caloric intake/expenditure estimates are provided to guide the learning process.
Several fitness labs are required for course completion including the participation in a timed 5k run event (or similar) and completion of the Presidential Fitness Challenge.
This Course Includes:
- Proctored Exams
- 48 hours grading turn-around
- Live technical and student support
- Free transcription to your destination school
- 150+ partner college and universities with direct articulation
- Self Paced
- Science
- Content by StraighterLine
After completing this Personal Fitness & Wellness course, you will be able to:
- Understand the health care costs in the USA.
- Understand the specific health and disease challenges within our society.
- Assess personal health risk through evaluation of fitness parameters and lifestyle choices.
- Understand the changing health and fitness challenges with aging.
- Understand the basic response to cardiovascular and strength based exercise programs.
- Understand the importance of flexibility and ‘back’ health.
- Understand the causes of daily stress and selected management techniques.
- Understand the basic role of diet and general nutrition in overall health.
- Understand how to design and basic exercise program oriented towards addressing my personal health and fitness goals.
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| 1 | Health Care in the USA |
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| 2 | Health of the Nation 2020 |
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| 3 | Personal Health and Fitness Assessment |
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| 4 | Health Benefits of Physical Activity |
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| 5 | Aerobic Exercise for Fitness |
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| 6 | Strength Training for Health and Fitness |
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| 7 | Exercise, Nutrition and Health for Weight Control |
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| 8 | Flexibility and Back Health |
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| 9 | Managing Stress in your Daily Life |
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| 10 | Designing an Exercise Program for your Personal Health and Wellness |
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| 11 | Substance Abuse |
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There are no prerequisites to take the 'Physical Education, Health & Wellness' course.
The required eTextbook for this course is included with your course purchase at no additional cost. More information on StraighterLine eTextbooks
Prefer the hard copy? Simply purchase from your favorite textbook retailer; you will still get the eTextbook for free.
StraighterLine provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.
If you have chosen a to award credit for this course, your final grade will be based upon that college's grading scale. Only passing scores will be considered by Partner Colleges for an award of credit.
There are a total of 1000 points in this course.
Final Proctored Exam
The final exam is developed to assess the knowledge you learned taking this course. All students are required to take an online proctored final exam in order complete the course and be eligible for transfer credit.
The lectures are hard to hear. The website is super slow and sometimes I couldn't get things to load at all. The mess that I went through for 3 days trying to get my final scheduled could have been avoided as well. I am also extremely unhappy with the fact that I was able to use my text book and notes but since I bought the ebook I was only allowed to pull it up on my computer. I have been using my ipad and it worked fine but for the final they said I could pull it up in a separate screen but after 10 minutes of trying to get it to load I gave up. I could have scored but better on the final if I had the book since there were many questions on there that weren't on the quizzes but I'm sure were in the text.
The lectures are hard to hear. The website is super slow and sometimes I couldn't get things to load at all. The mess that I went through for 3 days trying to get my final scheduled could have been avoided as well. I am also extremely unhappy with the fact that I was able to use my text book and notes but since I bought the ebook I was only allowed to pull it up on my computer. I have been using my ipad and it worked fine but for the final they said I could pull it up in a separate screen but after 10 minutes of trying to get it to load I gave up. I could have scored but better on the final if I had the book since there were many questions on there that weren't on the quizzes but I'm sure were in the text.
This course was easy to understand. It seemed the questions on the quizzes went in to quite a bit of depth and asked very specific questions rather than general concept type of things, but all in all this course was easy to complete.
This course was easy to understand. It seemed the questions on the quizzes went in to quite a bit of depth and asked very specific questions rather than general concept type of things, but all in all this course was easy to complete.
book and tests did not really go together. would suggest a physical book as it may be easier to read
book and tests did not really go together. would suggest a physical book as it may be easier to read
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A little challenging fitness class
A little challenging fitness class
To me, the concept of a mandatory collegiate "fitness" class is absurd. I found the "activities" most absurd. But I have been athletic AND involved in "life activities" all my life. I also generally eat well and understand the concept of eating "well". I realize there are many, many people who view activity and healthy eating as an external, foreign concept. I also realize there are many who have food AND activity neurosis, but remain unfit. This course may suit them well, but also enforce the idea that common sense eating and activity is complicated and therefore an extrinsic aspect of their life. A note on the 5k assignment: there are those that run local 5k's often. These 5k's do not qualify for the assignment, as there is no official website posting of results. So, for students that do not live in or near major metropolitan areas, finding a 5k that meets this criteria can be problematic; research this before enrolling.
To me, the concept of a mandatory collegiate "fitness" class is absurd. I found the "activities" most absurd. But I have been athletic AND involved in "life activities" all my life. I also generally eat well and understand the concept of eating "well". I realize there are many, many people who view activity and healthy eating as an external, foreign concept. I also realize there are many who have food AND activity neurosis, but remain unfit. This course may suit them well, but also enforce the idea that common sense eating and activity is complicated and therefore an extrinsic aspect of their life. A note on the 5k assignment: there are those that run local 5k's often. These 5k's do not qualify for the assignment, as there is no official website posting of results. So, for students that do not live in or near major metropolitan areas, finding a 5k that meets this criteria can be problematic; research this before enrolling.
I found the quizzes challenging. The labs were relevant, it was difficult completing the last one.