Chabot College
Fall 2001
Replaced Fall 2010
Course Outline for Physical Education 4
BASIC HEART RATE TRAINING:
FITNESS TRAINING USING A HEART RATE MONITOR
Catalog Description:
PHED 4 – Basic Heart Rate Training: Fitness Training Using a Heart Rate Monitor
May be repeated 3 times.
1 Unit
Students learn how to improve fitness utilizing pulse and a heart rate monitor. They will learn how to
create a balanced life long exercise program using heart rate as a guide. May be offered in distance
education delivery format.
Prerequisite Skills:
None
Expected Outcomes for the Students:
Upon completion of the course the student will be able to:
describe the relationship between heart rate and energy system involved;
1. evaluate their aerobic fitness level based on heart rate;
2. operate a heart rate monitor;
3. describe heart rate training zones in relation to their overall fitness plan;
4. design a 30-day beginning exercise plan;
5. use heart rate as a guide to achieve optimum all around fitness;
6. use heart rate, exercise and diet to manage their weight.
Course Content:
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Using a heart rate monitor
Understanding heart rate training
Aerobic fitness and heart rate
Maximum heart rate and the training zones
How to develop an exercise plan
Diet, heart rate and exercise for weight control
The basics of body composition
Flexibility, joint mobility and injury prevention
Heart rate and stress
Methods of Presentation:
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Lecture
Online web site
Activities
Participation
Discussion of student log
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Chabot College
Course Outline for Basic Heart Rate Training - PHED 4, Page 2
Assignments and Methods of Evaluating Student Progress:
1. Typical Assignments
a. Web Searches
b. Physical Activity
2. Methods of Evaluating Student Progress
a. Pre and Post Exercise plan
b. Student log
c. Participation
Textbook:
Heart Zone Training, Edwards, Adams Media Corporation, Holbrook, Massachusetts, 1996.
Special Student Material:
Student must have a heart rate monitor
KC – [U:\kc’document\curriculum\pe_4.doc]
New: November 10, 2000
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