PE 185WWT - Women and Weights: Weight Control and Strength Improvement

1 Credit(s)

Course Description: Focuses on empowering women and men with the basics of weight training and various modes of fitness, with a special focus on the physiology of the woman’s body. The benefits of safe, effective, and progressive strength training will be emphasized. Topics in the course will include enhanced strength, muscle tone, increased metabolism, enhanced energy levels and reduction of depression symptoms. Each week a new mode of fitness will be introduced or incorporated into a progressively expanding circuit of exercises. These circuit activities will rotate on a regular schedule. Every class will end with a cool-down, stretching, and relaxation. Short lecture sections will cover the benefits of exercise, proper breathing and execution of exercises, prevention and care of exercise-related injuries, diet, physiology, major muscles groups and body terms, and information on related health issues.

Course is repeatable.

Course Level: Lower Division Collegiate

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Demonstrate safe and easy exercises for the heart and entire body.
CLO#2: Demonstrate improvement in body composition. (ILO: Critical Thinking)
CLO#3: Identify major muscle groups, and explain proper and safe use.
CLO#4: Develop and present routine or specific exercise for toning an individual muscle group, or present fitness-related topic.