MOVEMENT AND MOVEMENT EXPERIENCES

1. PATHFIT 2
Exercise-Based Fitness
Activities

2. Course Description
This course builds on the foundation of motor skills
achieved through core training. It will provide experiences
in a variety of exercise programs to maintain and enhance
cardiorespiratory and musculoskeletal fitness. It includes
speed and agility training with a focus on body
coordination and balance. In conjunction with fitness and
wellness concepts, exercise, and healthy eating principles,
learners will be able to enhance their fitness through goal
setting and application of the exercise principles to adapt
their movement competencies to independent physical
activity pursuits and periodically evaluate their physical
activity and eating patterns to monitor their progress and
achievement of personal fitness and dietary goals.

3. MOVEMENT AND MOVEMENT
EXPERIENCES

4. MOVEMENT
Is the process of any change in the position of
the body (or a body part) in space, ranging from
the ever-so-slight, such as the involuntary blink
of an eye, to the most strenuous of vigorous
whole-body activities, like sprinting.

5. Fundamental Body Movements
Are basic body movements that serve as the
foundational building blocks upon which more
complicated physical movements are built.
Locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative
movements are three types of movements completed
by the body.

6. Locomotor Movements
Involve moving the body through space from one
location to another.

7. Non-Locomotor Movements
Occur when the body moves in place around the
spine or axis of the body.

8. Manipulative Movements
Are movements that involve using a body part to
move an object or item.

9. BODY MECHANICS

10. Is simply, the study of the human movement. Also
called as, biomechanics and kinesiology, it
applies the popular principles of engineering and
physics to basic human movement. Body mechanics
training occurs when appropriate body movement is
applied in correcting and preventing poor posture,
reducing stress on ligaments, tendons and joints
and in enhancing physical capabilities.

11. Principle of Proper Body Alignment

12. Principle ofWide base of support

13. “To move things is all mankind can
do, and for such the sole executant
is muscle, whether in whispering a
syllable or felling a forest”.
-Charles Sherrington