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Dec 30, 2024
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EXPH 2290 - Exercise Testing and Prescription This course covers the background knowledge needed to evaluate the risks of exercise, evaluate fitness levels, write exercise prescriptions, and develop exercise programming to adults with no known diseases according to the standards set forth by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
Requisites: AT 1002 or EXPH 1490 Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to demonstrate competence in the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) listed in the current edition of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription.
- Students will be able to identify risk factors, health status, and fitness to prescribe appropriate exercise plans.
- Students will be able to integrate suitable and innovative activities into exercise prescriptions that improve functional capacity of healthy adults.
- Students will be able to identify and prescribe innovative lifestyle modifications for healthy adults.
- Students will be able to appropriately utilize the principles of design for health and fitness programs for a wide range of individuals with no known disease or with controlled disease.
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