BC3 Academic Catalog: 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PHED 125 - Physical Wellness 2 Credits: (1 lecture, 2 lab)
Course Description
This course improves students’ physical well-being and develops academic concepts and principles of physical exercise. Emphasis will involve a balanced integration of the wellness components, including the physical, mental, social and emotional. Emphasis also will be placed on structured weekly workouts and on developing individualized exercise prescription (requiring a timed run/walk at midterm and final), including emotional support systems necessary for adhering to a long term lifestyle of exercise. If selecting any Fast Track section of this course, it is strongly recommended that the student is in good physical shape before scheduling. This course meets the General Education competencies of Wellness (HW) and Values, Ethics, and Diverse Perspectives (VE).
Text
Corbin, Charles; Gregory Welk; William Corbin; and Karen Welk. (2023). Corbin’s Concepts of Fitness and Wellness: A Comprehensive Lifestyle Approach. 13th ed. New York: McGraw Hill.
Objectives
The student will be able to:
A. Describe intelligent life decisions with regard to health-related choices which can have a lifelong impact on one’s physical, mental, social, and emotional well-being. (HW)
B. Identify the micro and macro-nutrients necessary for a balanced diet and healthy body and the possible disorders resulting from poor eating habits.
C. Create a strategy for achieving personal wellness goals through interpreting personal wellness information, making healthy modifications and developing personal wellness goals. (HW)
D. Identify the specific ethical problems and cultural risk factors for multiple diseases and illnesses. (VE)
E. Examine the complexity of global humanity diversity and the various forces that shape it. (VE)
F. Train to meet pre-established performance standards based on individual exercise prescription.
Content
A. Running, walking, stationary cycling
B. Warm up and cool down exercises
C. Muscular strength and cardiorespiratory endurance training
D. Coronary risk factor and cardiovascular disease
E. Nutrition and weight management
F. Stress assessment and management techniques
G. Cancer prevention and recognition of warning signals
H. Physical and psychological effects of alcohol and tobacco
Student Evaluation
A. A reflective paper
B. A daily journal summarizing individual food consumption
C. A research paper on diseases/illnesses
D. An exam of cultural differences with diseases
E. A reflective paper on global diversity as related to health
F. Meet the standard for walking/running
Bibliography
Behnke, R. S. (2012). Kinetic anatomy. Champlain, IL: Human Kinetics, Inc.
Corbin, C. B., Corbin, W., Welk, G., & Welk, K. (2012). Concepts of fitness and wellness: A comprehensive lifestyle approach (10th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Fahey, T. D., Insel, P., & Roth, W. (2014). Fit and well alternate edition: Core concepts and labs in physical fitness and wellness (11th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Fahey, T. D., Insel, P. M., & Roth, W. T. (2013). Fit and well (10th ed.). Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company.
McKenzie, S. (2013). Getting physical: The rise of fitness culture in America. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
Robbins, G., Powers, D., & Burgess, S. (2012). A wellness way of life (10th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
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