Transfers ToCSUDescriptionPrerequisite: None. Total 54 lecture hours. Introduction to the essential principles and skills of exercise testing and prescription. This is a lecture course designed to provide students with a basic understanding of laboratory and field assessment techniques used in exercise physiology, fitness/wellness facilities, and‐‐to a minor extent—clinical situations. This course will emphasize fitness assessment and exercise program design principles for cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance, body composition, balance, and flexibility for apparently healthy individuals. Students acquire knowledge of and skill in risk factor and health status identification and fitness appraisal. Students demonstrate the ability to incorporate suitable and innovative activities that will improve an individual's functional capacity. (A/CSU) PC-Area KUsually HeldMon 9:35am–11:00am, Mon Wed 11:15am–12:40pm 