2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

EXW 130H - Weight Management


Description: Weight control through nutrition and exercise. Application of principles of nutrition, and exercise for weight management programming.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 2
Lab: 2

Course Content:
  1. Concepts in weight management
  2. Basic nutrition
  3. Eating behavior technique
  4. Strategies for changing eating habits
  5. Lifestyle modification and behavior change
  6. Exercise programming for weight loss, weight gain and weight maintenance

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Explain the physiology of weight loss, weight gain, and weight maintenance. (1,2,6)
  2. Identify behavior techniques and strategies that assist weight loss, weight gain, and weight maintenance. (3-5)
  3. Identify the role of a lifetime exercise program as the key to a successful weight loss and weight maintenance program. (5)