Good diet, exercise, and healthy habits are important for all students.  So is a program carefully tailored to their individual needs.  Students with Individual Educational Plans or 504 Plans will benefit from the individual coaching offered by their teacher as they establish personal goals and achieve fitness-related objectives.

Welcome to Wellville.  In this virtual town, you will develop your own workout log in which you will record your cardiovascular, flexibility, and strength and endurance activities.  You will learn about proper weight, good diet, and managing stress.  As you progress through the course, you will feel your energy level increase.  And by the end of the course, you will have developed the kind of healthy habits that will last a lifetime.

This course is all about you and your health.  Your teacher will help you discover how far you can go.  After that, the pride of accomplishment will produce continued motivation.

IEP or 504 Plan required and FLVS approval

• Baseline Fitness Levels
• Flexibility Activities
• Joints, Muscles, Tendons and Ligaments
• Benefits of Flexibility
• Principles of Overload, Progression and Specificity
• Proper Stretching Techniques
• Principles of Flexibility
• Types of Stretching
• Current Trends in Health and Fitness
• Health Risk Factors
• Health & Skill Related Fitness
• Warm Up and Cool Down Importance
• Common Injuries
• Importance of Exercising Safely
• Stress
• Warning Signs of Stress
• Coping with Stress
• Stress management
• Short & Long Term Goals
• Cardiovascular System
• Monitoring the Heart
• Heart Rates
• Pulse Rate
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Cardiovascular Activities
• Principles of Cardiovascular Fitness
• Benefits of Muscular Training
• Muscular Strength & Endurance
• Muscular Safety Precautions
• Weight Training Myths
• Muscular Contractions
• Muscular Strength & Endurance Activities
• Principles of Muscular Fitness
• Food Guide Pyramid
• Functions of Essential Nutrients
• Determining Serving Sizes
• Reading Nutritional Labels
• Importance of Water
• Classify Body Types
• Components of Body Composition
• Caloric Inputs & Outputs
• Weight Management & Control
• Weight Loss Methods
• Eating Disorders

Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, FLVS guides students to reflect on their learning and to evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of self-checks, practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, essays, oral assessments, and discussions. Instructors evaluate progress and provide interventions through the variety of assessments built into a course, as well as through contact with the student in other venues.