SMS 199 Exploration of Unique Lifelong Fitness and Sport Practices

3.0 Credit(s) PGR WC

This course explores culturally unique fitness and sport practices. Participants are invited to experiment with given innovative methods and search for new techniques and systems of physical activity. Emphasis is placed on experiencing, analyzing and comparing alternative methods of training and restoration not well known across the world, including guidelines for lifelong fitness and long term sport participation used in various countries from China and Russia to Australia, Canada, UK and the US. The safe exploration of the global techniques and philosophies used in this course are not necessarily supported by the current established sports medicine governing bodies. Three lecture hours per week.