Personal Fitness-Grade 10
Duration
10 Months
Prerequisites
Student Must Have Completed Grade 9
Requirements
None
Course Summary
In this Personal Fitness course, students are required to participate in weekly cardiovascular, flexibility and strength and endurance activities. Students who are unable to participate in such physical exercises will be unable to complete the requirements of this course. Students who have an Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) or some other physical limitation that prevents them from participating in physical activity should seek to enroll in an Adaptive Physical Education course.
MAJOR TOPICS AND CONCEPTS
- Flexibility Training Principles
- Stretching safely
- Health Risk Factors
- Health vs. Skill Related Exercise
- Stress and Coping Strategies
- Cardiovascular Health
- Muscular Fitness Training
- Food and Its Relationship to Health
- Weight: Keeping it Under Control