High Personal Fitness

Segment 1: 

Importance of Physical Activity
Baseline Fitness Levels
Short and Long Term Goals
Cardiovascular System
Monitoring the Heart
Measuring Pulse
Target Heart Rate Zone
Cardiorespiratory Activities
Principles of Cardiorespiratory Fitness Principles of Overload, Specificity, and Progression
Components of Health-Related Fitness
Peer Pressure
Peer Influence
Flexibility Activities
Joints, Muscles, Tendons, and Ligaments Benefits of Flexibility
Proper Stretching Techniques
Types of Stretching
Warm-Up and Cool Down
Importance of Exercising Safely Types and Causes of Stress
Stress Management
Components of Skill-Related Fitness Benefits of Muscular Training
Strength and Endurance Exercises
Muscular Safety Precautions
Weight Training Myths
Muscular Contractions
Principles of Muscular Fitness
Value of Lifetime Fitness
Avoidance of Unhealthy Lifestyle
Balanced Nutrition
Functions of Essential Nutrients Determining Serving Sizes
Reading Nutritional Labels
Media’s Impacts on Fitness
Media’s Influence on Self-Esteem

 

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.  

To achieve success, students are expected to submit work in each course weekly. Students can learn at their own pace; however, “any pace” still means that students must make progress in the course every week. To measure learning, students complete self-checks, practice lessons, multiple choice questions, projects, discussion-based assessments, and discussions. Students are expected to maintain regular contact with teachers; the minimum requirement is monthly. When teachers, students, and parents work together, students are successful.