High Fitness Lifestyle Design
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Number of Credits
0.5
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Estimated Completion Time
1 Semesters
Description
Students in the Fitness Lifestyle Design course discover how to move strong, live well, and eat healthy. During their fitness journey, they learn the principles of strength and endurance training, lifetime fitness activity options, and essential nutrition to encourage lifetime optimal health.
Students assess their current level of fitness then use training principles to set and reach fitness goals with a long-term goal of lifetime health. After establishing a strong foundation on the principles of strength and endurance, students then explore a variety of different sports—with a focus on choice and options, so that they can best select healthy activities that suit their personalities and lifestyles. Finally, students learn about nutrition and how it impacts physical health and athletic performance.
This complete course journey through physical health, sport, and nutrition requires at least 420 minutes per week of moderate to vigorous activity from each student.
Follow the link below for the Department of Education description for this course:
Regular course description: http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewCourse/Preview/13430
Module 01—Move Strong
- Exercise safety
- Components of fitness
- Benefits of exercise
- Risks for disease
- Healthy lifestyle
- Overcoming excuses
- Fitness testing
- Goal setting
- Training and conditioning
- Cardiorespiratory fitness
- Strength and endurance
- Heart rates
- Flexibility
- Workout plan designing
- Logging activity time
Module 02—Live Well
- Stress relief
- Sleep
- Safe exercise equipment
- Equipment purchases
- Athletes with disabilities
- Cultural influences
- Modifying fitness activities
- Participation in team sports/group activities
- Recreational activities
- Community and school fitness opportunities
- Proper form
- Analyzing workout facilities/trainers
Module 03—Eat Healthy
- Nutritional habits
- Vitamins and minerals
- Dietary guidelines
- Dietary choices and variations
- Food labels/nutritional claims
- Calorie counting
- Activity levels
- BMI measurement tools
- Serving sizes
- Meal planning
- Food journal
- Hydration
Fitness assessment supplies:
- Yardstick or tape measure
- Stopwatch or a watch that counts seconds
- Pieces of paper
- Tape
- Bathroom scale
Working Speakers for course videos
Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***
***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When taking the exam to assess a student’s integrity, the exam must be passed with at least a 59.5% in order to earn credit for the course.
Courses subject to availability.
Pursuant to s. 1002.20, F.S.; A public school student whose parent makes written request to the school principal shall be exempted from the teaching of reproductive health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, in accordance with the provisions of s. 1003.42(3). Learn more about the process and which courses contain subject matter where an exemption request can be made.
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