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CEE 525 Physical Fitness and Conditioning

Course overview

The ultimate goal for physical educators, strength and conditioning professionals, and sports medicine specialists has not changed. It continues to be to help students and athletes achieve their maximum potential without incurring injury.

This course provides up-to-date information that will assist in developing the above goal. It will not only prepare students for careers in physical education, athletic coaching, or strength and conditioning but also provides an excellent source of information for students who directly or indirectly work with athletes.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to design safe and effective physical training programs. These physical training programs will be developed based on information obtained from strength training and conditioning, anatomy, biochemistry, endocrinology, nutrition, exercise physiology, and psychology. You will be made aware of the relevant research in the above mentioned sciences and recognize how these safe training principles evolved.

Whether your motivation is to learn the essentials of strength training and conditioning, prepare for a certification exam, or have a resource for your professional development, this course will give you knowledge of how to develop and administer safe and effective strength training and conditioning programs in order to enhance your students' or athletes' level of physical fitness.

Course Goals

Upon successful completion of this course, each student will be able to:

• Describe anatomical and physiological principles of the cardiopulmonary, neuromuscular and neuroendocrine systems, and their responses and adaptations to acute and chronic exercise
• Identify biomechanical principles involved in various physical education, sport, and resistance training programs
• Explain processes of bioenergetics responsible for producing the energy necessary for physical training and sport conditioning
• Illustrate nutritional principles that are important in physical training and sport conditioning
• Identify principles and techniques used in weight loss and weight gain programs
• Explain various ergogenic aids that are commonly used in physical training and sport conditioning
• Analyze the role of strength, endurance, balance, agility, speed, power and flexibility in physical training, sport conditioning, and athletic performance
• Demonstrate principles of designing sport conditioning programs based on testing and evaluation, acute programming variables, needs analysis, and the principles of periodization
• Apply principles for the organization and administration of the strength and conditioning facility, including facility layout, operations, and emergency procedures

Textbook

Bachle, T. & Earle, R.W. (Ed.) (2008). Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning (3rd ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

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