PCADE 097 PCAD Advanced Fitness and Wellness (ESL) (5 credits)
Course Description
An advanced study of the following wellness components: Fitness, Nutrition, Stress Management, and Disease Prevention. This course will assist students in the continuation of self-implementation of the necessary protocols to independently improve cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and body composition. Students work to maintain their goals by utilizing the varied fitness resources available in the Health Education Center as well as the natural environment of the Pierce College campuses.
Course Content
A. Fitness components
B. Basic nutrition for fitness
C. Basic protocol to improve cardiovascular health
D. Basic protocol to improve muscular strength, muscular endurance, and muscular flexibility.
E. Disease prevention strategies
F. Stress Management
Student Outcomes
1. Identify and explain the five components of fitness: cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition.
2. Identify and define the elements that comprise the Wellness paradigm and synthesize these multiple lifestyle factors into a broader concept for oneself.
3. Describe the concept of one’s own wellness in contrast to the simple absence of disease.
4. Discuss how a regular exercise program and a healthy nutritional lifestyle impacts one’s health.
5. Describe how to safely monitor exercise intensity.
6. Design and implement a personal fitness program that addresses all five components of fitness in terms of intensity, duration and frequency.
7. Evaluate personal fitness improvement from previous fitness levels based upon aerobic capacity assessment.
8. Obtain the appropriate management strategies needed to handle stress.
9. Describe the known causes of disease and manageable prevention strategies.
Degree Outcomes
Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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