Overall Course Objectives are as follows:

Course Objective 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the basic concepts and principles of lifetime fitness and wellness.
Course Objective 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of good nutrition.
Course Objective 3. Demonstrate an understanding of how weight control and stress management contribute to lifetime wellness and fitness.
Course Objective 4. Demonstrate an understanding of how to plan and implement a lifetime fitness and wellness program.
Course Objective 5 Demonstrate an understanding of hypokinetic diseases and their impact on lfespan


Each Unit of the class will be provided specific learning objectives as exemplified in each of the modules of the course listed below:

This module will contain a lab or labs pertaining to the topic of the chapter; exercise log for the first module of each week; A written assignment (For example, a written response to a video clip, journal excerpt, news article or a website review provided by the instructor). Please pay close attention to due dates.


Concept One - Health Behaviors and Wellness
After completing the study of this Concept, you will be able to:

Describe the HELP philosophy and discuss its implications in making personal decisions about health, wellness, and fitness.
Define the dimensions of health and wellness, and explain how they interact to influence health and wellness.
Distinguish health-related and skill-related dimensions of physical fitness.
Identify related national health goals and show how meeting personal goals can contribute to reaching national goals.

Concept Two - Fitness Principles
After completing the study of this Concept, you will be able to:

Describe the origins of exercise
Define physical activity and exercise
Provide guidelines for creating a successful fitness program
Identify safety concerns
Define Health Related components and Skill Related Components of Physical Fitness
Define moderate physical activity and differentiate it from light and vigorous physical activity.
Describe the health benefits of moderate physical activity, and explain why moderate physical activity is the most popular form of physical activity.
Describe and explain the FIT formula for moderate physical activity.
Plan a personal moderate physical activity program based on SMART goals, and self-monitor your plan.
Evaluate your current environment and determine ways to modify it to encourage moderate physical activity.
Describe the risks associated with inactivity, including excessive sitting.

Concept Three - Cardiorespiratory Fitness
After completing the study of this Concept, you will be able to:

Identify and define the five stages of change and explain how the stages relate to making lifestyle changes.
Describe the four key factors that influence health behaviors, describe components in each category, and explain how the factors relate to stages of change.
Identify and describe the self-management skills that predispose and enable you to change and to reinforce changes once you have made them.
Identify and describe the six steps in self-planning and explain how they can be used to make personal plans for behavior change.
Conduct self-assessments of your current stages for health behaviors and your self-management skills for making health behavior change.
Explore the Cardiovascular system, the development and training of the heart and lungs, and subsequent testing to measure cardiovascular fitness

Concept 4:  MUSCULAR STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE

After completing the study of this Concept, you will be able to:	
	
Gain an understanding of muscle physiology and select terms associated with this topic	
Construct a training program for muscular strength and muscular endurance based upon the FITT principle	
Explore the topic of nutrtion supplements and their use and abuse	
Perform muscular strength and muscular endurance assessments	

Concept 5: Flexibility

After completing the study of this Concept, you will be able to:	
Identify and explain several misconceptions about flexibility.	
List the health benefits of flexibility and stretching.	
Describe the various methods of stretching and their advantages and disadvantages.	
Determine the amount of exercise necessary to improve flexibility, explain the FIT formulas for the different types of stretching, and describe factors in the “do and don't list for stretching.”	
Describe a variety of flexibility-based activities for improving flexibility and some of the advantages and disadvantages of each.	
Identify some of the guidelines for safe and effective stretching.	
Describe several self-assessments for flexibility, select the self-assessments that help you identify personal needs, and plan (and self-monitor) a personal flexibility exercise program.	

Concept 6:  Body Composition

After completing the study of this Concept, you will be able to:	
Understand and interpret body composition measures.	
Describe common methods of assessing body composition.	
List health risks associated with overfatness.	
List health risks associated with excessively low body fatness.	
Identify and describe the origins of body fatness.	
Explain the relationship between physical activity and body composition and apply the FIT formula for achieving and maintaining a healthy body composition.	
Evaluate your body composition using several self-assessments and identify personal needs, set goals, and create a plan for achieving and maintaining a healthy body composition.	
Self-assess your daily energy expenditure.	

Concept 7: Nutrition

After completing the study of this Concept, you will be able to:	
Apply basic guidelines for healthy eating.	
List and apply dietary recommendations for carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.	
Interpret and use food labels to make healthy decisions.	
Describe and incorporate sound eating practices.	
Describe and apply nutrition guidelines for active people and those interested in performance (e.g., sports).	
Analyze your diet to determine nutrient quality.	
Compare nutritional quality of various foods.	

Concept 8: Weight Management

After completing the study of this Concept, you will be able to:	
Explain the principles for weight control and the concept of energy balance.	
Identify the features of an obesogenic environment that influence our behavior.	
Outline guidelines for weight loss treatments.	
Describe and apply, when appropriate, guidelines for losing body fat.	
Utilize healthy shopping and eating strategies and guidelines.	
Evaluate fast food options.	

Concept 9: Stress

After completing the study of this Concept, you will be able to:	
Describe the stress-buffering effects of physical activity that contribute to positive psychological health.	
Identify behaviors that contribute to better sleep hygiene.	
Describe the benefits of recreation, leisure, and play to overall quality of life.	
Identify a variety of strategies for effective time management.	
Understand the unique benefits of cognitive-, emotion-, and problem-focused coping strategies.	
Describe the mental health benefits of mindfulness, spirituality, and emotional expression.	
Determine several relaxation techniques that can be used to effectively manage stress.	
Describe different types of social support and ways in which it facilitates effective stress management.

Concept 10:  Cardiovascular Disease
Upon completion of this chapter students will be able to:

Explain how the cardiovascular system works.
Identify the major types of cardiovascular disease.
List risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Identify strategies that lower the risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

Concept 11: Cancer, Diabetes, and Other Health Threats
After completing the study of this Concept, you will be able to:	
Describe the general nature of cancer and its various forms, and indicate the frequency of each form of cancer in the population.	
Outline screening guidelines, lifestyle changes for prevention, and early warning signals for cancer.	
Describe the general nature of diabetes and its various forms, and indicate the frequency of diabetes in the population.	
Outline screening guidelines, lifestyle changes for prevention, and early warning signals for diabetes.	
Identify other health threats (e.g., accidents, depression, suicide, and sleep disorders).	
Determine steps that can be taken to reduce risk of other health threats.	


Concept 12:  Substance Abuse

After completing the study of this Concept, you will be able to:	
Identify the most widely used forms of tobacco and the contents of tobacco products that contribute to negative health outcomes.	
Describe the negative health and economic costs of cigarette and cigar smoking and smokeless tobacco use.	
Describe secondhand smoke and identify the negative health consequences of secondhand smoke exposure.	
Understand trends in the prevalence of tobacco use.	
Identify important factors contributing to recent reductions in tobacco use in the United States.	
Describe efforts by the tobacco industry to maintain higher rates of smoking.	
Identify effective prevention and intervention approaches designed to reduce rates of tobacco use.	
Understand the effects of alcohol on the body.	
Describe different patterns of alcohol use and problems, including alcohol use disorders.	
Identify the negative physical, psychological, and behavioral consequences of excess alcohol consumption.	
List factors that have contributed to declining rates of driving under the influence of alcohol.	
Explain biological and environmental factors associated with increased risk for alcohol problems.	
Determine aspects of the college environment that contribute to heavy drinking among students.	
Describe effective alcohol prevention and treatment approaches.	
Identify steps you can take to protect yourself and others.	
List the six major classes of illicit drugs and their effects.	
Describe the negative health, financial, and legal consequences of illicit drug use.	
Identify biological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to illicit drug use and abuse.	
Explain differences in prevalence of the various classes of drugs, including both illegal drugs and prescription drugs.	
Describe long-term and recent trends in use of the different drug classes.	
Identify signs of drug problems and available resources for addressing these problems.	

Dr. Carl Bryan has been teaching physical education, exercise and sport science since 1990.  He has a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in physical education, exercise and sport science from UNC-Chapel Hill as well as a Doctorate in Education from Liberty University.  He has extensive course work and continuing education hours in topics broached in this course of study.  This course emulates the traditional freshmen class that he instructs at the college where he works.  Subsequently, he has taught Early College students for a number of years working with students who are 13 - 18 years old and are earning both their high school degree as well as their Associate in Arts or Associate in Science degrees at the Community College Level so they can transfer to a University.

Concepts of Fitness and Wellness by Flynn et al will be utilized as well as material provided by the instructor. 
The textbook is an Open Education Resource (OER) textbook and is free to use as part of the OER program.  All labs and written assignments  will be provided as well as power point lectures and  video lectures for students to refer back upon.