Strive for Moderately Intense Cardio
Prior Learning
You found that, for beneficial effect, you should strive for moderately intense cardio 30
minutes a day, five days a week, or vigorously intense cardio 20 minutes a day, 3 days a
week. In conjunction with the exercise, an exercise sequence should be considered to
minimize injury. You also found that you could measure the intensity of the exercise
by monitoring your heart rate and comparing it to your target HR zone.
Pretest
How confident are you that you can maintain a cardio-respiratory exercise? Rate your
confidence from 0 to 100, 0 being totally unconfident, and 100 being totally confident.
Activity
Singh, Bennett, and Deuster (1999) indicate that there are four basic components in all
physical fitness programs to include Frequency of exercise, Intensity of the exercise,
Time spent exercising, and the Type of activity (FITT). These four elements are
intended to be incorporated into your activities to foster an overall active lifestyle,
obtain the benefits of routine exercise, reduce health issues related to inactivity, and
reduce injury.
The FITT principle applied to cardio-respiratory training suggests a Frequency of 3-7
days per week, an Intensity of 60% to 90% of maximum heart rate (Max HR), an
exercise Time of 30-60 minutes per day within your target heart rate zone, and
exercise Type as continuous, low resistance, high repetition activities Singh, Bennett,
and Deuster (1999).
Consider the FITT Principle for cardio-respiratory training recognizing the parameters
for exercise referencing Peak Performance Through Nutrition and Exercise, Chapter 5
for additional information.
Follow-up
Explain the FITT Principle for cardio-respiratory training relative to your age the
Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type of exercise.
How confident are you that you can maintain a cardio-respiratory exercise? Rate your
confidence from 0 to 100, 0 being totally unconfident, and 100 being totally confident.
Whole Task Objectives Follow-up
How might the FITT principle relate to your goals and objectives?
How might the FITT principle relate to your understanding of factors affecting your
personal development?
Toolbox FITT
7.6 Objective
Establish a goal and objectives for aerobic exercise.
Whole Task Objectives
Understand the concept of goals and objectives
Describe factors affecting your personal development.
Relevancy
So you have a sense of the structure for your cardio-respiratory exercise. But, just what
kind of exercises might be beneficial and how can a schedule be derived that meets
your lifestyle.
Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring. –Jimmy Carter
Prior Learning
For beneficial effect, strive for moderately intense cardio 30 minutes a day, five days a
week, or vigorously intense cardio 20 minutes a day, 3 days a week. In conjunction
with the exercise, an exercise sequence should be considered to minimize injury. You
also found that you could measure the intensity of the exercise by monitoring your
heart rate and comparing it to your target HR zone.
Pretest
How confident are you that you can maintain a cardio-respiratory exercise? Rate your
confidence from 0 to 100, 0 being totally unconfident, and 100 being totally confident.
Activity
Singh, Bennett, and Deuster (1999) suggest you use the following outline as a basis for
selecting an exercise program.
o What are your goals — Are your interests health, fitness, or performance related?
o What do you enjoy — Do you prefer team or solitary activities?
o What are your time limits — How much time you can devote?
o What gear do you need — What is your budget?
Walking is the easiest, most common, low impact exercise, but its cardio-respiratory
usefulness occurs when the intensity is high enough to increase your heart rate to 60-
75% of your max HR.
When starting a running program, combine walking and jogging. Overtime, increase
the time spent jogging and decrease the time spent walking. But, increase mileage or
pace by only 10% per week. Your exercise intensity should be between 60%-75% of
your max HR.
Swimming is a good cross-training exercise for running and other high-impact
activities and a viable alternative for people with orthopedic problems or those who
are in rehabilitation. Note that swimming 1/4 mile, or 440 meters, is the energy
equivalent to jogging 1 mile.
If appropriate, develop a specialized program to meet your needs. Meet with a
physical therapist or other resource to identify an aerobic exercise.
Use Think-Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS) collaborative groups of two to design
an aerobic workout and indicate why the selection was made. Selection may include
walking, running, swimming, or other specialized program. Note that a specialized
program may require meeting with a counselor or physical therapist.
Follow-up
Complete a sample aerobic workout using Appendix F: Aerobic Exercise. Establish
data in your journal. What key issues emerged?
How confident are you that you can identify and maintain your cardio-respiratory
exercise? Rate your confidence from 0 to 100, 0 being totally unconfident, and 100
being totally confident.
Whole Task Objectives Follow-up
How might the concept of an aerobic workout relate to goals and objectives?
How might the concept of goal and objectives for aerobic exercise relate to your
understanding of factors affecting your personal development?
Toolbox Aerobic workout schedule
References
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Singh, A., Bennett, T. L., Deuster, P. A. (1999). Peak performance through nutrition and
exercise. Dept of Military and Emergency Medicine Uniformed Services University of
the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine.
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- Time Management
Q&A
Address any issues from prior session.
8.1 Objective
Describe the cycle of procrastination.
Whole Task Objectives
Understand the concept of goals and objectives
Describe factors affecting your personal development.
Relevancy
Wikipedia (2009) provides a practical definition of procrastination as a behavior which
is characterized by deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. For a behavior to be
classified as procrastination, it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying
(Schraw, Wadkins, & Olafson, 2007.)
How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’ –Martin Luther
Prior Learning
Recall that identifying how you are allocating your time and then performing an
optimizing process to better address your time needs can be an effective method for
reducing stress, improving time management, and setting and fulfilling classroom
goals.
Pretest
How confident are you that you are making efficient use of your time? Rate your
confidence from 0 to 100, 0 being totally unconfident, and 100 being totally confident.
Activity
The causes of procrastination may be related to issues of indecision, anxiety, low
sense of self-worth, a self-defeating mentality, and often result in lower academic
grades (Burka, 1983; Beswick, Rothblum, & Mann, 1988.) Procrastinators may have a
lower-than-normal level of conscientiousness, based on “dreams and wishes” of
perfection or achievement in contrast to a realistic appreciation of obligations and
potential (Strub, 1989.)
The procrastination cycle typically follows a circular model.
- You begin the project thought process.
- You consider all you need to do to achieve your result. You are perhaps
overwhelmed resulting in a delay to your start.
- Tomorrow comes and conditions are still not ideal. Perhaps you find more
pending projects.
- You become anxious and delay still more.
- You berate yourself for your delays and disappointment starts to affect your
judgment.
- You decide to take a small break that often lengthens into days.
- You remember the project and its deadlines and you anxiously begin but hit a
major roadblock.
- Anxiety increases and you find yourself back to step 1.
Several techniques for beating procrastination include:
o Identify yourself as a procrastinator.
o Convince yourself with positive thoughts rather than excuses for not starting.
o Do not overextend your commitments; consider your education as a “job.”
o Identify a study or work location.
o Develop a daily/weekly time plan for allocating study time.
o Create a time sensitive plan of goals and objectives for your project identifying
key objectives on a calendar.
o Perform more difficult tasks when you’re most alert.
o Create a reward for your completion.
Review the cycle of procrastination. Using Think-Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS)
collaborative groups of two will identify a technique that will beat procrastination.
Follow-up
Do you procrastinate? What triggers your cycle of procrastination?
Whole Task Objectives Follow-up
How might the issue of procrastination relate to goals and objectives?
How might procrastination affect your personal development?
Toolbox Procrastination beaters
8.2 Objective
Develop a plan containing a goal and objectives to manage time more efficiently so as
to reduce stress.
Whole Task Objectives
Understand the concept of goals and objectives
Describe factors affecting your personal development.
Relevancy
Effective time management is problematic for most people and it becomes more
complicated when one is balancing family of social obligations, education, and a job.
An excellent time proven exercise is to identify how you are currently allocating your
time and then perform an optimizing process to better address your activity and time
needs. The optimizing process results in a “calendar” or planner that allows you
identify daily routines as well as when special events impact your daily routines. By
identifying and compartmentalizing your routines and identifying important activity
dates you can establish boundaries that ultimately permit you to enjoy guilt-free
personal time without the stressful thought of “I should be doing …”