Southwest Guilford High – Honors Physical Fitness – Advanced

Apr 2026 · 2nd Semester

This course is designed to challenge highly motivated individuals to understand, apply, and achieve levels of improvement in personal fitness and nutrition. Students will use various technology tools to collect data, and chart and analyze their personal levels of physical fitness centered on the five components of health–related fitness. The course will allow students to create and implement personal fitness plans for the course by using the FITT formula. Various self–assessments and analysis will be conducted through reflectively writing those changes that occur in body composition. Students will develop a deeper understanding of the correlation between exercise and nutrition and their lifetime benefits, such as the curtailing of obesity and type II diabetes. Students will intensely explore heart monitors, core strength training, and research–based topics. This course is designed for the novice weight training student. It involves introductory techniques of weight training and cardiovascular conditioning, safety precautions, injury prevention, and other methods of weight management. Major focuses are general muscle toning and achieving total fitness. The development of a personal fitness program is a part of this course.