Health & Fitness

Chart Your Path to Lifelong Fitness: What factors influence our bodies as we strive to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle? In this course, you’ll learn about fitness components, exercise principles, training methods, movement phases, and athletic performance. You’ll set personal fitness goals, track your progress, and engage in weekly exercises to target various areas of fitness. Through reflection and feedback, you’ll understand how your efforts lead to improvement. The course ends with a student-led project where you will choose and explore topics that matter to you, such as nutrition, mental health in sports, exercise science, biomechanics, careers in sport, or community-based sports initiatives.

Why Take This Course? This course will empower you to put what you learn into action, helping you develop and achieve personal health goals that will positively impact your life. Whether you’re an athlete, aspiring trainer, or simply passionate about exercise science, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills needed to lead a healthy and active lifestyle. Additionally, if your school has a physical education or health requirement that you can’t seem to fit into your schedule, this course is for you.

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Students in GOA courses will need reliable access to a computer with webcam/microphone connections, an email address (preferably school-based), a Web-conferencing app (GOA courses use Zoom), and a Word processing app (GOA courses use Google’s G Suite). When necessary, alternative arrangements may be made. Some courses require additional materials which can be found here.

UC-approved course

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