Take charge of your health and wellbeing with our Personal Fitness Online Course – perfect for anyone who wants to improve their fitness knowledge or build a healthier lifestyle. This flexible, online course explores key principles of exercise, strength training, cardiovascular health, nutrition, and body systems. Whether you’re starting your personal fitness journey, aiming to support others, or preparing for further study in health or fitness, this course gives you the foundation you need to succeed. Learn at your own pace and develop the confidence to make lasting, positive changes to your physical health.
Do together with Personal Energy Management course for a bundled discount!
WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THIS COURSE?
- Perform different types of fitness tests
- Perform a variety of different exercises
- Interview an inactive person to assess their fitness goals
- Determine which muscles are used in certain exercises
- Plan a diet and a weight loss diet
- Suggest exercises to improve suppleness
- Contact medical training facilities to find out about courses offered
- Suggest first aid procedures for a number of given situations
- Design more than one fitness program
WHY STUDY THIS COURSE?
Our Personal Fitness course is ideal for someone who wants to commit to exercise but, for whatever reason, has difficulty attending a gym or exercise classes. Studying this course will provide you with the knowledge and understanding to develop your own fitness program that you can use to suit your circumstances. This is also a great course if you are interested in starting your own small business to train other people in reaching their personal fitness goals.
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- Reasons for Fitness
- Basic components of physical fitness, reasons for fitness, fitness testing and evaluating endurance.
- Understanding your body
- Body structure, cardio respiratory system and aerobic/anaerobic energy.
- Testing your fitness
- Types of fitness tests, differences due to age and gender and evaluating different types of fitness tests.
- Exercises for specific purposes
- Types of exercise, developing physique, basic conditioning exercises, and exercises for specific problems.
- Nutrition and Weight control
- Nutrition basics, weight control and planning a diet.
- Endurance and Suppleness
- Assessing how supple your body is, exercises that increase suppleness.
- Home Medicine and First Aid
- Basic first aid, acupressure and alternative vs mainstream medicine.
- Designing an Exercise Program
- Designing a program, assessing fitness and designing an appropriate program.
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.