Online Personal Fitness Course

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.

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Reasons for Fitness
   • Basic components of physical fitness, reasons for fitness, fitness testing and evaluating endurance.
2. Understanding your body
   • Body structure, cardio respiratory system and aerobic/anaerobic energy.
3. Testing your fitness
   • Types of fitness tests, differences due to age and gender and evaluating different types of fitness tests.
4. Exercises for specific purposes
   • Types of exercise, developing physique, basic conditioning exercises, and exercises for specific problems.
5. Nutrition and Weight control
   • Nutrition basics, weight control and planning a diet.
6. Endurance and Suppleness
   • Assessing how supple your body is, exercises that increase suppleness.
7. Home Medicine and First Aid
   • Basic first aid, acupressure and alternative vs mainstream medicine.
8. Designing an Exercise Program
   • Designing a program, assessing fitness and designing an appropriate program.

For more information on this course, please request your free course information pack.