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Applied Foundations of Fitness

Course Description: This course aims to familiarize students with the concept and importance of physical fitness, its types, and the application and transfer of relevant information and applications. It focuses on selecting young athletes physically, understanding the growth spurt of physical attributes according to age stages, and comprehending muscular strength and its tests, endurance and its tests, speed and its tests, agility and its tests, and flexibility and its tests. This course also presents the basic principles that students must learn to understand the relationship between physical fitness components and athletic performance level, including the role of healthy nutrition in achieving this. .
Credit hours: 3
Objectives of the course :

This course aims to provide knowledge of physical fitness.
1. Understanding the concept and importance of physical fitness and its types.
2. Application and transfer of specific information and applications, targeting the physically emerging
It mentions growth spurts of physical traits according to age stages.
4. Organizes tests and measurements of basic fitness elements: “muscular strength, speed, endurance, agility, flexibility.“.
Organizes fitness tests and measurements essential for the type of athletic activity practiced.
6. It mentions the basic principles of power generation systems.
Explains the relationship between elements of physical fitness and the level of sports achievement, and the role of healthy nutrition in achieving that. .

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:

  • It lists the theoretical and practical foundations and rules of the elements of physical fitness.
  • It highlights professional fields and reviews the latest research issues in the field of physical testing applications used in the selection of trainees. .
  • Explains the difference between growth spurts in physical traits according to age stages.

Skills:

  • It employs various methods and approaches to solve research problems in the development and improvement of physical fitness levels.
  • Connects healthy nutrition with fitness level
  • Applies scientific and technological methods when measuring physical fitness levels

Values and Responsibility

  • Demonstrates integrity, values, and professional ethics when dealing with issues and problems related to the applied foundations of physical fitness.
  • Practices professional tasks and activities in the application of fitness programs effectively and independently.
  • Collaborates effectively within projects or research or professional groups, and leads and takes responsibility while working.
Additional information:

The extent of achievement of the course learning outcomes is measured through direct assessment (oral exams, mid-term and final written exams, homework, reports, and research, presentations).

  • Last Updated: 2026-05-11

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