Instructor: Laura VanderhoffThis is a group, strength and conditioning class that uses a wide variety of equipment to increase muscular strength and muscular endurance. Students will learn to monitor their workout intensity, and safely use a variety of training methods. This class includes wellness and fitness concepts.
This course fulfills the Lifelong Wellness requirement for the General Education Program at Salt Lake Community College. It is designed not only to teach the information and skills required by the discipline, but also to develop vital workplace skills and to teach strategies and skills that can be used for life-long learning. General Education courses teach basic skills as well as broaden a student’s knowledge of a wide range of subjects. Education is much more than the acquisition of facts; it is being able to use information in meaningful ways in order to enrich one’s life. While the subject of each course is important and useful, we become truly educated through making connections of such varied information with the different methods of organizing human experience that are practiced by different disciplines. Therefore, this course, when combined with other General Education courses, will enable you to develop broader perspectives and deeper understandings of your community and the world, as well as challenge previously held assumptions about the world and its inhabitants. |
E-Portfolio Assignment
I totally love this class! It has taught me how to improve my physical strength. Although I try to exercise as much as I can because my knee injured, this class taught me lots of new exercises that will help me build my overall muscle strength without having pain in my knee. For example, free weights are a great way to build muscles and also are a small tool that you can have at home if you don’t have time to go to the gym or you have the space in your home. Also, I’ve learned in this class how I can build muscle without going to the gym, just by doing exercises that only required my body weight, such as pushups, squats, pull ups, etc.
The muscle presentation was one of the assignments we were given this semester. My presentation was about the upper body muscles, I made it with my classmate Ana Pastor. This presentation involved exercises that were focused on the upper body muscles and how you can make this exercises easier or harder. My classmate and I spoke about and performed different exercises targeting the biceps, triceps and shoulder muscles. We explained how it’s important to start with lighter weights and slowly increase the weight with each set so that you gain a maximum muscle workout. We learned a lot from this presentation because we had to research the different kind of workouts and practice them together so we fully understood what it was we were presenting. We learned a lot about different muscles and how they work. Most importantly, we learned how important it is to have a workout partner that can assist you ad motivate you when you needed.
In conclusion, I learned that I did not have much muscle strength, despite of how big the muscle can look like it doesn’t mean that we have strength and power in it; probably it is just fat. Also, I learned one of my weaknesses is the strength of my arms. I don’t have too much muscle strength in my arms when lifting heavy weights. We were limited in time for our presentation so we were only able to perform a couple of exercises. There are a lot more exercises to be performed at later date.
I totally love this class! It has taught me how to improve my physical strength. Although I try to exercise as much as I can because my knee injured, this class taught me lots of new exercises that will help me build my overall muscle strength without having pain in my knee. For example, free weights are a great way to build muscles and also are a small tool that you can have at home if you don’t have time to go to the gym or you have the space in your home. Also, I’ve learned in this class how I can build muscle without going to the gym, just by doing exercises that only required my body weight, such as pushups, squats, pull ups, etc.
The muscle presentation was one of the assignments we were given this semester. My presentation was about the upper body muscles, I made it with my classmate Ana Pastor. This presentation involved exercises that were focused on the upper body muscles and how you can make this exercises easier or harder. My classmate and I spoke about and performed different exercises targeting the biceps, triceps and shoulder muscles. We explained how it’s important to start with lighter weights and slowly increase the weight with each set so that you gain a maximum muscle workout. We learned a lot from this presentation because we had to research the different kind of workouts and practice them together so we fully understood what it was we were presenting. We learned a lot about different muscles and how they work. Most importantly, we learned how important it is to have a workout partner that can assist you ad motivate you when you needed.
In conclusion, I learned that I did not have much muscle strength, despite of how big the muscle can look like it doesn’t mean that we have strength and power in it; probably it is just fat. Also, I learned one of my weaknesses is the strength of my arms. I don’t have too much muscle strength in my arms when lifting heavy weights. We were limited in time for our presentation so we were only able to perform a couple of exercises. There are a lot more exercises to be performed at later date.