What are these classes like? How do you pass each one? What do you do in Fitness and Wellness?

I want to take a class with a minimal amount of physical effort involved, I've been pretty ill and prone to passing out for the past couple months.

8/19/2008 9:55:17 PM

In fitness walking every day you walk as fast as you can, extending your legs and all that as far as you can while maintaining the form they teach you in the class (just like those old ladies that power walk, only YOU'RE doing it ). As everybody gets better, she'll start taking you on longer and longer walks, and you'll have a few days where you do drills of a sort (2 laps of power walking, run up a flight of stairs and run back down 3 times, then do as many pull-ups, pushups, or crunches as you can do then hit the the track again... repeat). There's one mid-term that's based out of the book that is required for the class and it kind of sucked because I didn't read said book (read the book when they tell you to, lol). The final was sort of the same way and you have to power walk a mile as fast as you can for the last test. I got a little more than twelve minutes on the indoor track which wasn't bad in that class, towards the top 1/3 I guess (though if you put out any effort at all you'll be there) and landed me an A- in the class because I put out the effort to work in the class. They want you to train outside of the class, but I never did, and I still got that grade and still improved a lot in health and such. It also taught me how to walk correctly (they make sure you walk from the heel and roll up along your foot to the toe, you can't walk pigeon toed or anything) and it makes you walk faster in general (even w/o the gay arm movements) so you get places faster.

As for your personal condition, ask the instructor about it and see what they recommend. You might be required to get a note from student health or something verifying that you have had health problems and should not have very high-intensity exercise, but really, in my class, as long as you were there and you made an effort to walk and you followed the form you got an S. The severely overweight people who took our class and were otherwise in good health passed the class just as I did, though they were smart and took it credit-only (freshman mistake). They had much slower miles than me, but the teacher understand that not everybody can be super fast, especially when personal considerations come into account.

If you do take fitness walking, keep one of those gay little string pouch backpacks on and put some water bottles in it and keep a cell phone in it and walk with a buddy who's about as fast as you. I had a walking buddy and made sure to bring water for her as she never did (and she would've passed out some days as sometimes you are walking in the scorching sun on a hot ass day on an asphalt walkway). The cell phone is just in case something bad happens and you need an ambulance (I'm a diabetic so that's why I had mine).

8/19/2008 10:39:22 PM

fitness walking is gay, really gay--take a real PE

8/19/2008 11:18:14 PM

Why not water aerobics? Isn't that a 100 level class?

8/20/2008 3:06:06 AM

take fitness walking

8/20/2008 3:28:49 AM

water aerobics was awesome, especially if you have bad ankles.

8/20/2008 7:42:42 AM

fitness walking was a LOT of work. its not just power-walking. You have time goals you have to meet for the 2 mile and 1 mile walks, you are also assessed on other aspects of fitness including situps and pushups and nutrition.

i've heard fitness and wellness is a LOT easier...

8/20/2008 8:11:38 AM

the fitness and wellness class I took had three different areas for grading: running, weight training, and written tests.

IIRC, we had to run every other class and weight train in the other classes. The weight training grades were similar to the weight lifting class...everything was based on RSI. If you are on the low end of a weight scale, this is simple, but if you are like me, naturally heavy, it can make things difficult (i.e. I weighed 225 at the time of the class, so to make an A on the bench press I had to press 1.5x225 x 10 reps = 337 lbs 10 times). Also, part of the final was a 3 mile run. To pass you had to complete it in 30 minutes. At the time I was a pack a day smoker and I finished the run in about 28 minutes, but I was struggling. I should have audited, but I actually took it for a grade. The written part of the class was easy, all you have to do is read the book.

Summary: for your 100 level PE, always take it pass/fail. It doesn't matter which class it is.

8/20/2008 8:21:17 AM

run conditioning

8/20/2008 9:35:25 AM

if walking is too effort-intensive for you, then maybe you should take a break from school period

8/20/2008 10:49:06 AM

most of the people in this thread are dumb...please for the love of god take fitness walking

8/20/2008 11:11:25 AM

Thanks for the helpful advice everyone! I appreciate your comments.

I think I'm going to take fitness walking because lifting weights is going to be a little much for me.

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"You have time goals you have to meet for the 2 mile and 1 mile walks, you are also assessed on other aspects of fitness including situps and pushups and nutrition. "

Can you tell me more about the pushup requirements? I think it's going to be difficult & extremely painful for me to do one because of an illness. Thanks!

8/20/2008 12:00:50 PM

dudes had to do like 25...i think chicks have to do like 14...i forget how many situps a chick had to do, but dudes had to do 150 in 2 minutes

8/20/2008 2:27:04 PM

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"you'll have a few days where you do drills of a sort (2 laps of power walking, run up a flight of stairs and run back down 3 times, then do as many pull-ups, pushups, or crunches as you can do then hit the the track again... repeat)."

We never did this or anything close to it. All we ever did was walk, and there were three different places we did it: the track at the gym, the outdoor track, or a big lap around some streets I don't remember. The people in my class never really seemed to put forth that much effort. I was pretty much in front of everyone most days because I was actually trying to do it the way we were supposed to, but I have short little legs so that suggests everyone else was just strolling along not giving a crap. And form watching them, yeah, they were.

We never did anything other than walking except the very last day, when we did timed sit-ups. The numbers requirement for those was pretty high to get a good grade, but if you're taking it credit only it doesn't matter. The midterm/final were easy if you actually read the book, although the final was almost a carbon copy of the midterm, which isn't what was supposed to be on it.

8/20/2008 3:18:35 PM

honestly the 100 level pe is meant to be taken in the summer...shits over in 25 days...cant imagine taking it over the course of 4 months

8/20/2008 3:30:48 PM

had fitness walking with Winslow last spring. He makes cheesy jokes and damn does that dude love walking. You basically have to be a moron not to pass that class. He tells you pretty much everything that will be on the midterm and finals. We stayed on the indoor track the whole time and nearly got run over by the run conditioning class 90% of the time. We also went to the weight room every now and then and had the crunch/push-up tests at the end. That 2 mile walk test is a bitch on a sprained ankle. ha, and I found out that walking is a lot harder than I thought.

[Edited on August 20, 2008 at 5:02 PM. Reason : ]

8/20/2008 5:00:28 PM

you do realize they have an adapted pe right? assuming you can get a doctor's note...

[Edited on August 20, 2008 at 5:58 PM. Reason : or just talk to the instructor, they'll prolly work with you]

8/20/2008 5:53:26 PM

Let me add that I took it with Marsha Lester. Every teacher is different. You should ask about a certain instructor if you want to know how they did it. I didn't have any pushup requirement as a part of fitness walking. It was just the walking tests and the written tests, along with showing up regularly.

8/20/2008 9:45:23 PM

her son use to be my roomate...she always seemed cool...her son is a spoiled bitch

8/20/2008 10:08:27 PM

If you take it for credit only, pushups and curlups are usually so small of a percentage of your final grade that you can skip it altogether and still be fine. In my case though, I just told my teacher that because I broke my elbow last year, I couldn't do pushups, backed it up with a doctor's note, and she let my curlups count double.

8/21/2008 5:59:57 AM

why would anyone take a PE for grade? Just do enough to get the S and be done with it.....


and you have to lift some in Fitness Walking....at least when I took it. However, you use the girly machines so you should be ok.

[Edited on August 23, 2008 at 6:23 PM. Reason : w]

8/23/2008 6:20:04 PM

^

8/23/2008 7:21:52 PM

water aerobics was awesome

8/23/2008 10:53:08 PM

I took fitness walking credit only and it was retarded easy, jogging when the teach wasn't looking was a fairly common practice and as long as you dont bomb the written test too badly it shouldnt matter if you can't technically pass the pushup/situp part of the class

^3 yeah we spend one day on aerobic machines and one day on weights machines in the gym just to get familiar with them, but that was better than the walking part of the class imo

[Edited on August 23, 2008 at 11:06 PM. Reason : ]

8/23/2008 11:05:24 PM

^^ yes! A better choice than these other two imo.

8/24/2008 12:54:21 AM

thats what all the women say they dont want to "sweat"...


i dont get whats "better" about it...to me, better is "easiest"...fitness walking is about as easy as it gets...and you sweat

[Edited on August 24, 2008 at 1:34 AM. Reason : idk i guess i'm not big on pe's where you get in the pool to do "aerobics"...such a woman thing to do]

8/24/2008 1:30:48 AM

Water aerobics are good for people with joint problems etc because the water helps cushion your movements I guess you could say. But you definitely do sweat in the pool if you're exercising properly.

8/24/2008 9:03:59 AM

take fitness walking for pass/fail. the final "walk" sucks.

8/24/2008 10:07:03 AM

^how fast you do yours? i finished 2nd in my class with 17 minutes and 9 seconds for 10 laps

8/24/2008 10:12:47 AM

ha. I did that shit on a sprained ankle. Think 6 laps on the indoor track equals a mile, so 12 laps for the 2mile walk test. I was good til about halfway and that thing started hurting like a bitch. It was funny to watch everyone speed walk while they were close to the instructor and then run the whole backside of the track.

8/24/2008 11:51:17 AM

I loved water aerobics, it was fun and good exercise. I took the water aerobics and then water step aerobics for both of my pe requirements. Took it credit only, but still would have gotten A's in both classes

8/24/2008 4:06:06 PM

^^^ I took it summer II before starting freshman year and didn't know about the whole pass/fail thing until later. I don't remember my time but I got an A and still would have taken it as s/u.

[Edited on August 24, 2008 at 4:36 PM. Reason : .]

8/24/2008 4:35:10 PM