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Oct 31, 2025
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Catalog 2024-2025 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Chemeketa Community College, Salem OR (curriculum@chemeketa.edu)
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PE 185FT Cardio and Core Fitness, Beginning
Lab Hours: 3
Credits: 1
Introduces cardio conditioning to improve fitness, health, and overall wellness through structured group fitness classes. Covers knowledge and skills needed to perform safe and proper group and individual fitness exercises. Activities promote and emphasize improved cardiorespiratory conditioning as well as muscle strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition, and Skills to help students incorporate exercise into their lifestyle.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Beginning
- Perform safe and effective core fitness exercise movements.
- Participate in a consistent cardiorespiratory exercise program.
- Monitor individual physical intensity and progress.
- Determine intensity by measuring individual heart rate and target zone or rate of
- perceived exertion.
- Improve overall physical conditioning, including cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and endurance and flexibility.
- Create a short-term personal plan for overall fitness.
Content Outline
- Health-related Components of Physical Fitness
- Cardiorespiratory fitness
- Muscular strength
- Muscular endurance
- Flexibility
- Body composition
- Exercise Terminology
- Adaptation
- Progressive overload
- Regression
- Exercise Safety
- Injury prevention
- Progression
- Nutrition basics
- Exercise Intensity
- Target heart rate
- Rate of perceived exertion
- Talk test
- Cardio Exercise Formats
- Steady state
- Interval training - aerobic
- Interval training - anaerobic
- Developing a Personal Fitness Plan
- Goal setting
- Select activities
- Frequency, intensity, time, type (FITT)
- Staying motivated
- Monitoring progress
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