HE 275 Lifetime Health and Fitness

Explore current evidence based fitness research and its relationship to achieving positive health outcomes. Develop an understanding of how optimal fitness, including: cardiorespiratory, strength training, weight management and healthy diet contributes to the prevention of stress and chronic disease.

Credits

3

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Explain how the foundations of physical activity relate to optimal health and well-being
2. Describe the principles and socioeconomic challenges of healthy eating and physical activity in achieving your desired health goals
3. Evaluate the relationship between healthy nutritional practices, optimal fitness, healthy sleep habits, and overall well-being in preventing chronic disease
4. Challenge culturally constructed biases toward specific group identities that lead to stereotyping, microaggressions, implicit bias, systemic oppression, and decreased individual, community health, and fitness outcomes
5. Describe the interacting dimensions of environmental, physical, mental, emotional, social, intellectual, and occupational health and how they can affect lifetime health and fitness outcomes
6. Apply scientific reasoning and independent critical thinking to evaluate the validity of evidence and non-evidence based fitness-lifestyle-health information