KINS 260 Health Appraisal and Fitness Assessment (3 credits)
Prerequisite Completion of KINS 155 with a grade of 2.0 or better.
Course Description
The course incorporates current industry standards for health appraisal and fitness assessment techniques to optimize client safety during exercise participation.
Course Content
A. Standardized health appraisal process
B. Exercise preparticipation health screening
C. Cardiovascular fitness assessments
D. Body composition assessments
E. Muscular fitness assessments
F. Flexibility assessments
G. Resting assessments
H. Balance and functional assessments
I. Test selection, sequence and termination criteria
J. Analysis and interpretation of assessments
K. Exercise prescription
L. FITT-VP (Fitness, Intensity, Time, Type, Volume, Progression)
Student Outcomes
1. Conduct client health-related fitness assessments, to include the initial consultation, resting measures, body composition, muscular fitness, cardiorespiratory fitness, and flexibility.
2. Apply the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) exercise pre-participation health screening process using the pre-participation health-screening algorithm.
3. Discuss appropriate functional testing for sport specific skills, job simulation and activities of daily living.
4. Interpret health-related fitness assessment results to develop an exercise prescription using the Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type, Volume, Progression (FITT-VP) principle.
Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Program Outcome #2: Identify the criteria and considerations for pre-activity fitness testing, exercise prescription and fitness coaching for safe and effective programming.
Program Outcome #3: Identify and explain the importance of appropriate training techniques and theories as an important client management tool. (Exercise Prescription and Programming)
Lecture Contact Hours 10
Lab Contact Hours 40
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Reflection on readings
B. Objective Examination
C. Specialized activities (independent and collaborative)
D. Assignments (variety of methods)
E. Presentations (variety of methods)
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