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Oct 12, 2024
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LWA 205 - Indoor CyclingCredits: 1 Instructional Contact Hours: 2
Introduces indoor cycling as a means to obtain or improve current levels of health or fitness. Emphasizes proper cycling technique, simulating a variety of riding terrains to impact cardiorespiratory health or fitness. Includes proper warm-up, cool-down, strength exercises, and stretching. Addresses a variety of wellness topics including the 5 components of health related fitness and nutrition. Indoor cycling is a group exercise class performed on stationary bikes
Prerequisite(s): None Corequisite(s): None Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 30 Pass/NoCredit: Yes
Outcomes and Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the health-related components of fitness as they relate to wellness.
- Identify activities and criteria that meet the FITT principle for each component.
- Explore how the FITT principles of the five health-related components of fitness can impact student's overall wellness.
- Describe how the health-related components of fitness impact chronic disease risk.
- Demonstrate an understanding of healthy nutrition.
- List all macronutrients along with their caloric values, healthy food sources, relationship to healthy diet, and roles in the body.
- Explain the importance of micronutrients and their role in a healthy diet.
- Demonstrate an ability to think critically about nutritional claims and differentiate myth from fact.
- Demonstrate knowledge of major muscle groups.
- Identify the location of the major muscles groups.
- Give examples of exercises to strengthen the major muscle groups.
- Demonstrate an understanding of heart rate training.
- Demonstrate how to take, monitor, and calculate resting heart rates, exercise heart rates, and training zones.
- Explain how the training zones impact cardiovascular training principles.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the dimensions of wellness.
- Identify and define the dimensions of wellness.
- Explain, with examples from their lives, what contributes to or detracts from the various dimensions of wellness.
- Demonstrate various indoor cycling exercises using safe and proper technique as a means to improving fitness.
- Describe the importance of a warm-up and cool-down.
- Demonstrate an understanding of various indoor cycling training programs and principles.
- Demonstrate proficiency in setting up an indoor bicycle.
- Use proper hand and feet techniques in order to achieve greatest range of motion.
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