HPSS 3550

Principles of Sports Fitness (TN eCampus)

Principles of Sports Fitness provides an opportunity for students to learn the concepts and principles essential for an understanding of how to improve physical fitness for participation in sports. Specific activities with step-by-step instructions and procedures may be used to ensure that students learn how to identify, assess, and improve basic components of fitness (flexibility, cardio-respiratory endurance, strength, and body fat composition). Emphasis is placed on the ability of students to utilize the principles of readiness, adaptation, progressive overload, specificity, and reversibility, to design and manage a personalized fitness-training program. Appropriate individual and group activities are included in this course to afford opportunities for students to share their ideas and experiences in a manner that will facilitate the learning process. This course is designed for health fitness professionals, physical education teachers, coaches, and other individuals who desire to know how to plan and manage fitness-training programs.

Units: 3.0