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Overview
Key facts
Students will carry out the following tasks in this Personal Fitness course from Warnborough College:
- 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
Programme Structure
Lessons:
- 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
Key information
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
More details
You may enrol and start at any time of the year – it’s all self-paced.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
- Self-paced
Campus Location
- Canterbury, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Health Sciences Sport and Exercise Science View 283 other Short Courses in Health Sciences in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
This highly practical course helps you to understand what fitness really is, and enables you to develop a balanced fitness program for yourself or for people around you covering topics such as the human body, principals of exercise programming, and weight control.
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents395 GBP / full≈ 395 GBP / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents395 GBP / full≈ 395 GBP / full
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