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![]() | 2012/3 |
![]() | Department for Health |
![]() | 6 |
![]() | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
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Semester 2 |
![]() | CW 30%, EX 70% |
![]() | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
![]() | Before taking this unit you must take HL20041 and take XX10179 |
![]() | Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce the physiological adaptations that occur as a result of regular exercise and to understand how these adaptations may improve health, fitness and well-being. On completion of this unit students should be able to: * Understand some of the relationships between exercise, health and fitness. * Determine key aspects of health and fitness in a wide range of the population including specific groups such as the sedentary and elderly. * Evaluate the results of certain health/fitness tests and begin to prescribe forms of exercise that would elicit improvements in health/fitness. Content: Factors limiting health and fitness. Work tests to evaluate cardiorepiratory fitness. Training for Health and Fitness. Exercise and the musculoskeletal and Neauromuscular systems. Body composition Nutrition and Health. |
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HL20044 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:Department for Health
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