BROWARD COLLEGE - Weight Training by ORGANIC FITNESS.org - Syllabus
Summer 2009 - MW 3:30-5:50pm
Professor Keith Lopez - Email: OrganicFitness@gmail.com - Phone: 954-654-8419
Description:
A course primarily designed and organized for students of all ages to optimize their wellness in each of the following six interrelated dimensions: physical wellness; intellectual wellness; emotional wellness; spiritual wellness; interpersonal/social wellness; environmental/ planetary wellness. Students will learn how to assess and apply this information to their lives in order to contribute to the welfare of the community and environment with a specific emphasis on resistance training methods and techniques
Title: Weight Training
PEM: 1131
Course Prerequisites:
Check with your Doctor to start a weight training and exercise program, clearly noting any perceived limitations. Designed for beginners, and advanced pupils.
Course Objectives:
Increase Love and Gratitude
1. Learn the 6 dimensions of Wellness
2. Learn the 5 Components of Health and Fitness
3. Learn the FITT principle of training
4. Understand what a good pre and post-workout meal comprises of
5. To gain the ability to write a workout prescription
6. Complete and pass 3 diagnostic tests
7. Apply Health and Fitness to your life
8. Write a 1 page research paper on a dimension of wellness with 3 resources that will increase awareness
Attendance:
Attendance is based on your discretion. Ask other students for relevant information. Every class has a world of information and passion applied to class and will never be replicated-be there.
Grade:
Grades are based on Research Paper or final (this will be decided per class with teachers’ discretion). The more you learn the more you know! AND the higher you’re graded. All grades will be given the last day of class and may be discussed.
Class Schedule: (Tentative)
Week 1 – Introduction to Professor and Pupils, Diagnostic Test, Foundation Info
Week 2 – Foundation Info available at www.OGFit.com – weightlifting 101
Week 2 – Theory of Adaptation and Overload tied into course objectives
Week 3 – Nutritional Dense Foods, Food Guide Pyramid, Fad Diets, Centurions’
Week 4 – Workout Prescription, weightlifting, bodyweight, and cardiovascular activity
Week 5 – Love and Gratitude over all
Week 5 – Environmental and Social Health, storyofstuff.com, affluenza, futureoffood
Week 6 – Spiritual Health, Emotional Health, Presentation of research paper
Extra Credit: (via email at OrganicFitness@gmail.com)
1 Paragraph paper on Affluenza, Fast Food Nation, Super Size Me, the Future of Food