HLTH06025 2019 Introduction to Health and Fitness

Demonstrate the principles and concepts relevant to an active healthy lifestyle and the benefits thereof for the maintenance of health and prevention of disease.

Explain and apply basic principles of exercise science individually or as part of a small group including; health and skill-related components of fitness, principles of training, FITT, exercise prescription for health & fitness, basic dose-response issues and conduct basic fitness tests with accurate data for identified components of fitness.

Outline psychosocial factors relevant to health and fitness, and apply basic strategies from behaviour change models to motivate clients in health behaviour change.

Establish individual motivation and ‘readiness’ for change and identify real and perceived barriers to being physically active.

Describe effective strategies to promote physical activity and identify organisations and settings with responsibility to promote activity.

This module will be delivered fulltime. This will include lectures, laboratory practicals, and running track workshops augmented by independent learning and directed learning. This approach is expected to address student learning needs. Moodle will be used as a repository of educational resources and as a means of assessment (e.g. quizzes, uploading assignments and journals).

This module is 65% Continuous Assessment and 35% Final exam'.

Self-assessment tests and other forms of formative assessment are provided to students to check their own progress towards achieving the learning outcomes of the module and to motivate learning.  Module will be assessed using a combination of end of semester final exam (35%), continuous assessment and course work (65%). The assessment strategy for this module centres around assessing practical skills and application of theory using authentic, real-world scenarios and a mix of assessment methods to evaluate a variety of learning styles.

Repeat Continuous Assessment and/or Final Exam.

Active, Healthy Living and Disease Prevention

·   Principles, components and benefits of an active healthy lifestyle

·   Lifestyle choices affecting health

·   Adopting and promoting a healthy active lifestyle, principles, role of the professional and dose response issues

Principles of Physical Activity

·         Components of an activity session

·         Health and skill-related components of fitness, definitions, tests for and introduction to the;

            - The FITT Formula

            - Principles of training and their application to the components of fitness

            - Basic introduction to health and fitness testing

·         The relationship between physical fitness, health-related exercise, sports-specific exercise and health

·         National & International guidelines for physical activity for health & fitness

·        Overview of the exercise prescription for health, well-being and physical fitness

·         Introduction to the exercise continuum and dose response issues for physical activity and fitness improvement

Psychosocial Aspects of Health & Fitness

·   Introduction to psychological aspects of health & fitness influential in health-behaviour change

·   Identifying underlying motives for exercise goals and using these as part of client motivation strategies

·   Identifying readiness to change physical activity behaviour together with related future goals and aspirations

·   Identifying barriers and motivators to exercise participation

·   Introduction to the Transtheoretical Model of Behaviour Change - applying basic stage-appropriate strategies to promote physical activity

·  Applying basic cognitive-behavioural techniques to promote uptake and adherence to physical activity·        

Promoting Physical Activity for Health & Fitness

·         Effective approaches to promote increased physical activity

·         Agencies and opportunities for promoting physical activity

·         Using motivational strategies and effective behavioural strategies to enhance physical activity health-behaviour change

·         Using extrinsic and intrinsic reinforcement and tactics for relapse prevention