Health Opportunities through Physical Education

Your path to lifelong fitness starts here. You’ll set a variety of goals that will guide you toward leading a healthy lifestyle. During your journey, you’ll perform daily physical activity, design a personal fitness plan that suits your interests, and keep track of your fitness progress. You’ll monitor your exercise and nutrition using a personalized wellness plan.

Major Concepts:

• Importance of Physical Activity
• Safety
• Goals
• Personal Wellness Planning
• Cardiorespiratory Fitness
• Training Principles
• Health-Related Fitness
• Flexibility
• Monitoring Activity
• Peer Influence
• Muscular Strength and Endurance
• Training Expectations and the Media
• Skill-Related Fitness
• Good Eats
• Lifetime Fitness
• Avoidance
• Advertising
• Happiness
• Mental Fitness
• Healthy Relationships
• Health and Technology
• Personal Menu
• Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs
• Drugs and Alcohol: Risks and Effects
• The Weight Epidemic
• Body Composition
• Healthy Development and Disease
• First Aid and CPR
• Self-advocacy For Personal Health