P E 148 - CORE Training

Credits: 1
Uses Swiss balls and free weights (dumbbells) to build core strength and functional fitness. Designed to tone the entire body with special emphasis on progressively challenging the spinal extensors and deep abdominal muscles.

Course Fee: $10.00

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

Make wise choices regarding participation in core training techniques.
Improve wellness by actively participating in safe and effective core training techniques suitable to their individual needs and the course purpose.
Evaluate personal health and wellness, fitness level, and/or physical skill development.

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.