HOPE

Your body is a machine that has certain needs—if you treat it well, it should be able to serve you well. This course teaches you how to maintain your personal fitness, how to measure different aspects of physical fitness, and how to avoid injury while exercising. It’s all about getting active and setting your body in motion. By measuring health and fitness with objective data, it’s possible to improve your health in a methodical way. We need to take care of our body, but we aren’t necessarily born with the knowledge of how to go about it. It’s important to invest time and energy into understanding what it means to be healthy. There are many activities you can engage in that are dangerous for your long-term health, so you need to know how to identify and avoid these activities. It’s also important to identify lifestyles that will help you live a longer, more enjoyable life. This course will guide you through lifestyle choices that will help you stay healthy.

Subject(s): 
Electives