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High School Health, Part I: Personal Fitness Dr. Kerrie Berends (Health Science)
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Instructor: Dr. Kerrie Berends, Certified Exercise Physiologist
Course Description: High School Personal Fitness is a 7-week course covering all health-related aspects of physical fitness. Health-related components include flexibility, cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and body composition. The course is designed to teach students in-depth concepts of physical fitness including physiological aspects, personal fitness programming, and complementary aspects to physical fitness including sleep, recovery, and a brief introduction to nutrition. This course is designed to be taken prior to and consecutively with High School Personal Nutrition, which is a companion course in equal length. Both courses together meet the requirements for 1 high school health credit.
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High School Health, Part I: Personal Fitness Dr. Kerrie Berends (Health Science)
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Kerrie Berends
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Science ➤ Health Science
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High School
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January 22nd, 2019 at 12:00 AM ET
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Recorded, free with subscription
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Outline
Course Outline:
Week 1: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices: Physical Activity and Nutrition
Week 2: Embracing Physical Activity: A Complete Exercise Program
Week 3: Improving Your Aerobic Fitness
Week 4: Enhancing Your Muscular Fitness
Week 5: Increasing Your Flexibility
Week 6: Sharpening Your Functional Fitness
Week 7: Putting it all Together to Meet the CDC Exercise Guidelines
Materials
Students will need to purchase ACSM's Complete Guide to Fitness & Health-2nd Edition (the same text is used in High School Health, Part 2), ISBN-10: 149253367X or ISBN-13: 978-1492533672 (www.bookfinder.com or https://amzn.to/2T7OfYU). Additional online readings from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM: https://www.acsm.org/acsm-positions-policy/official-positions/ACSM-position-stands) will be assigned.
Homework
Students will have weekly assigned readings, fill-in-the-blank worksheets/study guides, weekly movement activities (a minimum of 30 minutes, three times a week), and a weekly quiz (answer key available for parents). PLEASE NOTE that there is an Answer key for the quizzes and Grades will not populate in Caravel. You will need to keep your own record of grades for this course.)
Kerrie Berends
kerrie.berends@gmail.com
About Kerrie Berends
Kerrie Berends, PhD, has worked in the health and wellness field for over 30 years and has extensive education and experience teaching homeschoolers, K-12 public students, university students, and individuals with disabilities and diseases. She holds two Masters degrees (Adapted PE and Teaching) and Doctorate in Kinesiology. Dr. Berends holds industry certifications in Exercise Physiology and is a Certified Fitness Nutrition Coach and Sports Nutrition Specialist (NESTA) and has published research in the area of nutrition. She is also certified in self-defence by R.A.D. Systems and teaches women's self-defense at the college level. Dr. Berends is currently full time professor and administrator at a private university and lives with her husband in Michigan. Her three homeschooled (graduated) children are now each accomplished with their own careers as a post-baccalaureate video and audio tech, a US Navy submarine electrician's mate, and a full-time preschool teacher.
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