P E 132 - Strength Conditioning

Credits: 1
Focuses on muscular strength and endurance through resistance training with Nautilus and Cybex machines and free weights. Emphasizes safe and effective resistance training principles and muscular strength and endurance.

Course Fee: $10.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Apply the basic principles of resistance training.
Develop programs and participate in safe and effective weight training activities suitable to their individual goals and the course purpose.

Program Outcomes

Participate in academic and physical activities that address various goals of Healthy People 2020. Goals include physical activity, nutrition and weight status, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and cancer.
Apply training principles or rules of the sport in fitness- and skill-related classes.
Identify and/or practice lifetime health and fitness skills that reduce risk of chronic disease and improve or maintain fitness and skill.

College-wide Outcomes

Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.