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Apply fitness concepts to design and implement personal fitness plans

to achieve personal fitness goals

2. Last Unit/ Experiences

Dance
8.Unit Schedule
9/1
9/2
9/4
9/8
9/9
9/11
9/15

Introduction to Personal
Fitness and safety
Goal Setting lecture
Safety Quiz
Muscles of the upper
arms
Personal Fitness Goal
due
Muscles of the back and
shoulders
FITT Principle

9/16

Personal Fitness Plan

due
Muscles of the upper leg

9/18

Muscles of the lower leg

9/22

Practice and Review

9/29

Muscle Group Project

due

1. Current Unit
Personal Fitness

5.Unit Map

3. Next Unit/ Experiences

Yoga/Pilates

Is about

Helps us make a plan of action for

Goal Setting

Individuals ability to perform

physical activities that
require strength, endurance,
or flexibility and are achieved
through regular exercise

Is affected by

Helps ensure
Injury Prevention

5 areas of fitness

To be effective requires an understanding of

Major Muscles
Groups and their
actions

7.Unit Self-test Questions

What elements are required to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing
level of physical fitness? (CS#4)
How were the elements of fitness implemented into your personal fitness
plan? (A.4.HR.6)
Explain the criterion-referenced , health-related fitness standards for age
and gender for muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, body
composition and cardio-respiratory health (A.4.HR.2 A.4.HR.3 A.4.HR.4
A.4.HR.5)
Summarize your process for creating and implementing your personal
fitness plan (K.2.HR.6)

Are directly related to

FITT Principle

6.Unit Relationships
Design a Personal Fitness Plan
Explain the FITT Principle and its relationship to the 5
areas of fitness
Apply the SMART Principle of Goal Setting to create a
personal fitness plan
Explain the difference between long-term goals and
short-term goals
Describe the connection between personal fitness and
injury prevention

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Personal Fitness

Teacher Copy
Helps us create a plan of action for our
Goal Setting

is about

Individuals ability to perform physical

Helps with

activities that require strength,

endurance, or flexibility and are

Uses a combination of

Injury Prevention

achieved through regular exercise

1. Short-term goals
2. Long-term goals

Includes

Requires the use of

5 Areas of Fitness
Major Muscle Groups

Include muscles of the

Upper Arm
1. Deltoid
2. Biceps
3. Triceps

Upper Leg
1. Quadriceps
2. Hamstrings

Lower Leg
1. Gastrocnemius
2. Soleus

1. muscular strength
2. muscular
endurance
3. flexibility
4. cardiovascular
endurance
5. Body mass index

FITT Principle

Improved by using
1.
2.
3.
4.

Frequency
Intensity
Time
Type

New Unit Questions:

Which perform the actions of

1. Flexion
2. Extension

1. Predict how the idea of personal fitness could be applied to the activities of
yoga and Pilates?
2. Explain how your personal fitness plan incorporated the 5 areas of fitness
and the FITT principle. Provide specific examples.

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Personal Fitness

Student Copy

is about
Helps us create a plan of action for our

Goal Setting
Individuals ability to perform physical

Helps with

activities that require strength,

Injury Prevention

endurance, or flexibility and are

Uses a combination of

achieved through regular exercise

Includes

Requires the use of

5 Areas of Fitness
Major Muscle Groups
FITT Principle

Improved by using

Include muscles of the

Upper Arm

Upper Leg

Lower Leg

New Unit Questions:

Which perform the actions of