2021-2022 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Oct 06, 2024  
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PE 190 Independent Fitness Activities (1 credit)



Course Description
An independent physical activity course designed to be monitored through self-reporting to the instructor. Students will implement a comprehensive personal fitness program that promotes lifetime physical fitness. Students are expected to self-monitor themselves and manipulate the variables of exercise to promote improvements in each of the health related and skill related components of fitness.

Student Outcomes
1. Determine whether medical clearance is required for safe participation in exercise.
2. Assess the health related components of fitness.
3. Assess the skill related components of fitness.
4. Understand the process of developing goals.
5. Demonstrate competency to plan, implement, self-assess, and modify a personal exercise prescription based on the Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type, Volume and Progression (FITT-VP) principles of exercise prescription.
6. Demonstrate responsibility by engaging in physical fitness related activities safely and independently.
7. Demonstrate practice of health-enhancing behaviors that promote wellness throughout a lifetime by adhering to an exercise program.
8. Evaluate progress by self-monitoring the health related and skill related components of fitness.
9. Demonstrate self-adherence to an independent exercise program.



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