STANDARD 2.6 (FITNESS) by Grade 12
Strands with Cumulative Progress IndicatorsA. Fitness and Physical Activity
- Predict the short- and long-term physical, social, and emotional benefits and potential problems associated with regular physical activity.
- Summarize the causes, influences, and responses of body systems during exercise.
- Describe how preventive healthcare, physiological monitoring, hydration, a safe environment, and exercising with a partner contribute to safe fitness activities.
- Evaluate the role of genetics, gender, age, nutrition, activity level, and exercise type on body composition.
B. Training
- Develop and implement a training program to maximize health benefits and prevent exercise-related injuries and illnesses.
- Apply training principles to establish a progression of activity that will improve each component of fitness and justify the use of each principle.
- Compare and contrast the use of drugs, fitness products, and fads to achieve fitness.
C. Achieving and Assessing Fitness
- Engage in a variety of sustained, vigorous physical activities to enhance each component of fitness.
- Perform at the intensity level needed to enhance cardiovascular fitness, monitor physiological responses before, during, and after exercise, and modify exercise appropriately in response.
- Assess personal level of fitness, design a personal fitness plan considering current health and fitness status, goals and interests, skill level, accessibility and costs, and use technology to implement, monitor, and evaluate the plan.
- Demonstrate age and gender-specific progress towards the achievement of fitness goals for each component of health-related and skill-related fitness.
- Modify a fitness plan to accommodate for injury, illness, pregnancy, aging, and disability.
- Discuss the use of body mass index, body fat percentage, and fat deposition as measures of fitness.
