CCOG for PE 282B Spring 2024
- Course Number:
- PE 282B
- Course Title:
- Professional Activities: Older Adult Fitness
- Credit Hours:
- 2
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 40
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Explores fitness instruction and leadership for older adult populations. Provides tools and information needed to design fitness training programs for healthy older individuals and groups. Prerequisites: FT 202. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students will be able to:
- Design and implement health and fitness assessments and programming for older adults based on scientific foundations.
- Apply effective teaching strategies in older adult fitness instruction.
- Apply motivational strategies to promote participation in older adult fitness activities.
- Explore current trends and employment opportunities for fitness instruction in older adult populations.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
- Older adult fitness class observations
- Older adult fitness video analysis
- Senior fitness testing and programming project
- Lesson plan and teaching demonstration
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- Motivation and exercise adherence strategies for older adults
- Safety for individuals, equipment, and facilities when leading fitness programs for older adults
- Pre-exercise screening tools and fitness assessment for older adults
- Fitness programs, classes, and instruction methods for older adults
- Fitness prescriptions for older adults in each of the areas of fitness
- Exercise modifications, as needed, for individual or facility considerations
- Additional wellness issues for older adults (housing, nutrition, recreation, etc.)
- Certifications and employment for older adult fitness instructors and trainers