Personal Fitness

Subject Area Concentration
Credits 1
Grades
11,
12

Personal Fitness places emphasis on why exercise and fitness are important, what one's own fitness needs are, and how to attain and maintain personal fitness for a lifetime. Additional emphasis is placed on the five health-related components of fitness including cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition control. Individual student fitness levels are assessed. Instruction includes emphasis on health risk factors related to lifestyles and how nutrition affects wellness. The course may include classroom instruction as well as individual and team activity. This course may be taken more than once for credit.

Schools
Brentsville District High School
Forest Park High School
Freedom High School
Gainesville High School
Gar-Field High School
Osbourn Park High School
Patriot High School
Unity Reed High School
Woodbridge High School