Personal Fitness Program

     The class was giving the assignment to design a personal fitness program that would include cardiovascular endurance and muscular strength.  They were divided into groups of the 4 to 5 students.  Each group had to collaborate in their effort to design an efficient fitness program.
     To design their program they had to follow the GET SET to get fit steps for training.  The  acronym GET SET spells out the 6 steps.  The first step is Goal.  This step establishes the goal of training.  Is the goal cardiovascular endurance or muscular strength?  If the goal is strength then the group needs to establish the specific goals of strength development?  The second step is Exercise.  Based on the students goal they should create the appropriate exercises to use for their training regimen.  Step three is Times per week.  Each group must determine how many times per week he/she should perform the exercises. Sets and reps is the fourth step.  After selecting the number of sessions per week they needed to decide on the number of reps and sets that they would perform during each training session.  E is for Effort which determines the amount of resistance, or speed that is used when performing repitition.  The final step is the Time of rest between each set of exercise.
      While designing the program they were required to set up one of the strength sessions outside of the weight room or fitness room.  They were limited to the small amount of equipment that was brought into classroom.