Course Outline for Physical Education Activity HER1
Basic Heart Rate Training: Fitness Training Utilizing a Heart Rate Monitor
Effective: Fall 2024
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Catalog Description:
PEAC HER1 - Basic Heart Rate Training: Fitness Training Utilizing a Heart Rate Monitor
0.50 - 2.00 Units
Improvement of cardiovascular fitness through the use of a heart rate monitor. Use of a heart rate monitor, target heart rate training zones and adult type II diabetes prevention will be covered.
0835.00 - Physical Education
Optional
| Type | Units | Inside of Class Hours | Outside of Class Hours | Total Student Learning Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laboratory | 0.50 - 2.00 | 36.00 - 108.00 | 0.00 | 36.00 - 108.00 |
| Total | 0.50 - 2.00 | 36.00 - 108.00 | 0.00 - 0.00 | 36.00 - 108.00 |
Measurable Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- describe the relationship between heart rate and energy system involved;
- evaluate their aerobic fitness level based on heart rate;
- operate a heart rate monitor;
- describe heart rate training zones in relation to their overall fitness plan;
- design a number of weekly exercise plans based on their heart rate and fitness level;
- use their heart rate as a guide to achieve optimum all-around fitness;
- explain the importance of normal blood pressure readings as they relate to long term health and the prevention of heart disease and adult type II diabetes;
- use their heart rate to exercise correctly.
Course Content:
- Role of resistance exercise in overall health and wellness
- Principles of resistance exercise
- Dangers of hypertension and pre-diabetes
- Tracking your blood pressure
- Identify problem foods as they relate to diabetes and hypertension
- Waist to hips ratio and its relationship to diabetes and hypertension
- Identifying metabolic syndrome
- Getting the essential tests done with your physician
- Shopping and eating in a new way to improve your health
- The risks of being sedentary
- Ten things to teach your pre-diabetic child
- Using a heart rate monitor
- Understanding heart rate training
- Aerobic fitness and heart rate
- Maximum heart rate and the training zones
- How to develop an exercise plan
- Diet, heart rate and exercise for weight control
- The basics of body composition
- Flexibility, joint mobility and injury prevention
- Heart rate and stress
Methods of Instruction:
- Activities
- Demonstration/Exercise
- Distance Education
- Discussion of student log
- Lecture
- Online web site
- Participation
Assignments and Methods of Evaluating Student Progress:
- Record your blood pressure readings every other week. Determine if your readings fall in the normal range or the pre-hypertensive range.
- Record your waist to hip measurements. Do these results combined with your blood pressure recordings show signs of pre-diabetes? If so, what changes can be made to prevent adult diabetes?
- Complete a one mile fitness assessments bi-monthly at 70% heart rate. Record the results of the assessment and create a two week training program based on the results of that assessment.
- Keep a daily journal recording exercise and eating habits. Review the journal each week throughout the semester to identify areas for improvement.
- Pre and Post Exercise plan
- Student log
- Improvement on Fitness Assessments
- Class Participation
- Quizzes
- Final Examination
Upon the completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- demonstrate either in written form, or orally, how to calculate their target heart rate training zone numbers.
- demonstrate how to use a heart rate monitor to improve their overall all health and well being
Textbooks (Typical):
- Ron Woods, Christopher Jordan (2021). Energy Every Day Human Kinetics.
- Heart rate monitor
Abbreviated Class Schedule Description:
Improvement of cardiovascular fitness through the use of a heart rate monitor. Use of a heart rate monitor, target heart rate training zones and adult type II diabetes prevention will be covered.
Discipline:
Physical Education*