Personal Fitness Plan

Your level physical fitness is vital to living a long and healthy life. It is important to know how to create a workout program that adapts to your life and allows your personal levels of physical fitness to grow over time. What are some of the fitness goals you would like to achieve this year or beyond? What are some activities you enjoy doing? Are you more interested in playing sports or working out on your own? If you know how to properly create a workout program, it will increase your chances of achieving your goals.

In this module, you will learn how to design and implement your own personal fitness plan. You will also learn about the principles and components that are necessary in an effective personal fitness plan. You will explore upper-body, lower-body, core, and total-body exercises that will help you achieve your fitness goals.

Getting Started

In order to create a personal fitness plan, it is important that you access your current fitness levels. Marathon runners cannot just show up on the day of the race without training. Before even beginning to train, many marathon runners determine their fitness levels with a little help from science. View How the Body Responds to Exercise from eMediaVASM to learn how a team of athletes, determined to run a marathon, measured their cardiovascular systems before creating a fitness plan designed to help them reach their goals.

 

Key Vocabulary

To view the definitions for these key vocabulary terms, visit the course glossary.

 

assessment	long-term goal	short-term goal
cool down	lower-body exercises	sit-and-reach test
core exercises	motivation	specificity
curl-up test	overload	step test
evaluate	pre-assessment	summative assessment
F.I.T.T. principles	progression	time
formative assessment	push-up test	type
frequency	repetition	upper-body exercises
goal	self-esteem	warm-up
implement	set	workout
intensity	setback