Improve your physical fitness know-how with the theories and practices covered in this free online course. This free online physical fitness course will introduce you to the basics of exercise physiology and show you how the body responds and adapts to physical exercise. Developing and maintaining your (and other people's) physical fitness and core strength needs to be done in a way that keeps everyone injury-free. This will make your fitness regimes more effective and safe, and give your physical training skills a real boost, for free.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 187459 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Diploma |
| Course Duration | 10-15 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Define the term exercise physiology • Discuss the function of the cardiovascular system during exercise • Discuss how running, swimming and strength training can be used as effective tools to develop and maintain strength and fitness • Describe the benefits that flexibility can have on overall health and fitness • Describe the benefits of calisthenic and plyometric exercise on muscular strength, endurance and power • Describe the effects that training in extreme environments can have on the body • Describe a range of common injuries that occur during physical training and the best ways to prevent and treat them • Discuss the effects of performance enhancing substances and the beneficial and adverse effects linked to them |
| Course Code | 1358 |
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