Running Head: CLIENT ASSESMENT | UNIT 8

Client Assessment | Unit 8

Lisa Moore

Purdue Global University

EF310 Current Trends in Exercise and Fitness

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Client Assessment | Carl

Carl is living the college student’s dream. Surfing the web during the week, with a little

bit of homework sprinkled in, to living it up on the weekends partying and sleeping in. He wants

to get in shape but has no plan and does whatever his friends are doing when he does make it to

the gym on weekends. The good news is, Carl does walk a lot on campus to get to class. He also

has basketball courts nearby where he and his friends play pick-up games and he plays

intramural sports on the weekends.

Carl is physically able to perform the FITT principles to the max. However, since he

really has not been disciplined in his activities, I recommend that he does ease into them. Below

I have made suggestions based on Carl’s concerns of the rec center being too far away to get to

during the week but also applying the fact that the basketball court is available. When Carl is

unable or unwilling to go to the gym, he can body resistance workouts in the privacy of his own

home and if he has some extra cash, he can purchase some resistance bands to use to intensify

the workouts. My recommendation is he gets those pickup games scheduled on a regular basis

and continues playing the intramural sports to help with the aerobic activities. I also suggested a

variety of stretching exercises to help with flexibility and prevent injury.

Client Assessment FITT: Carl

Frequency Intensity Time Type
Aerobic 3-5 times a 150-300 minutes of • 60 • Pickup basketball games on
week moderate intensity minutes nearby courts
a week • 30 • Intramural sports on
minutes Saturdays
Muscle 3 times a With just starting • 15-30 • Upper body once a week –
Strengthening week out, do 3 sets of 8- minutes body resistance doing
10 reps for each pushups, pullups, dips or get
exercise resistance bands to utilize at
home
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• Lower body once a week – do

squats across the basketball
court, wall sits, squat jumps,
calf raises
• Total body mix of free
weights and machines at rec
center on weekends
Flexibility 3-5 times a • Gradual • 5-10 • Lunge twists, knee to chest,
week stretches minutes to leg swings, standing
warm up hamstring stretch, triceps
before stretch, quad stretch
basketball
or
strength
training