1. Certificate in Employability and
Personal Development
Level 3 Curriculum
(EPD Award Level 2)
Curriculum booklet
Unit 573
Healthy Living
Evidence Booklet
Name: Reuben Hill
Group: BTEC media
Year: 1
Tutor:

2. Learning Outcomes
Outcome 1 Understand why personal fitness is important
The learner can:
1. Explain the term personal fitness.
2. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of different activities in relation to
personal fitness.
Outcome 2 Recognise the role that exercise plays in a healthy life style
The learner can:
1. Develop a programme of personal exercise in relation to weight, health and age.
2. Record personal progress.

3. Outcome 1 Understand why personal fitness is important
1.1 Explain the term personal fitness
Your explanation must include 5 key features....
Personal fitness is: Personal fitness is the level of fitness you are happy with, for
example a footballer needs good personal fitness for running around the pitch
whereas some on that works in a shop will not.
This can include:
Strength: is how strong your body is.
Stamina: stamina is how long you can exercise before becoming tired
Speed: is how fast you run or how fast your body can react to a situation.
Agility: is how agile you are which helps when avoiding tackles in rugby.
Flexibility: is how flexible your body is.

4. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of different activities in relation
to personal fitness
Relate the advantages and disadvantages to your fitness; you must
include at least 3 activities.
Activity Advantages Disadvantages
1. • Good for cardiovascular • Injury
Rugby system
• Can’t do it alone
• Increased stamina
• Need a large open space
• Good upper body strength
2. • Good cardio exercise • injury
Bike riding
• Increased stamina • costly
• Can use just a bike • can be hard to do if you
machine in your house live in a city
3. • increases flexibility • Pulled muscles
Tennis
• increase upper body • Requires a court
strength
• Requires a partner
• increased stamina

5. Outcome 2 Recognise the role that exercise plays in a healthy life style
In small groups identify why exercise is important to health….
Improves cv system, increased lung capacity
also tones muscles. Better sleep, helps skin
improves immune system, builds confidence.
Keeps you fit. Decreased chance of heart
attack. Less chance of diabetes and certain
cancers.
What are the different types of exercise…..
Flexibility exercise
Anaerobic exercise
aerobic exercise

6. 2.1 Develop a programme of personal exercise in relation to weight, health and age.
Personal Exercise Programme – This must include details of what exercise is to be undertaken; you must
explain why this is appropriate to you. What you want to achieve from the programme and how your choices
are appropriate to your age, weight and current health level. This must take place over a minimum of 3
weeks.
Personal Details

7. 2.1 Choose 1 activity from 1.2 and review your progress over the next 3 weeks
Name: Reuben Hill Date:SATURDAY 27 TH OCTOBER
Age: 17
Current health and fitness level:
Good Average- Could be better
My aim is to:
Gain weight- Maintain my weight Lose weight
I think my level of fitness for my age is:
Above average Average- Could be better
Week one
My activity will be: Mountain biking
Explain where and when this exercise will take place:
Where: Llendegla mountain bike course
When: Every Saturday

8. Explain how this exercise is appropriate to you with regard to your age, weight and existing health level:
This is appropriate for me because: it’s a sport I enjoy
It has helped me to:
Gain weight Maintain my weight- Lose weight
It is appropriate for my age because:
Hard work and keeps me fit.
It is appropriate for my health level because:
it is hard work and keeps me fit.
Week two
My activity will be:
Explain where and when this exercise will take place:
Where: Llendegla mountain bike course

9. When: Saturday
Explain how this exercise is appropriate to you with regard to your age, weight and existing health level:
This is appropriate for me because: it’s a sport I enjoy
It has helped me to:
Gain weight- Maintain my weight Lose weight
It is appropriate for my age because:
It will increased my health and stamina
It is appropriate for my health level because:
It is increasing my current level of fitness
Week Three
My activity will be:
Explain where and when this exercise will take place:
Where: Llendegla mountain bike course

10. When: every saturday
Explain how this exercise is appropriate to you with regard to your age, weight and existing health level:
This is appropriate for me because: it’s a sport I enjoy
It has helped me to: increase fitness and gain weight
Gain weight- Maintain my weight Lose weight
It is appropriate for my age because:
It will increased my health and stamina
It is appropriate for my health level because:
It is increasing my current level of fitness
2.2 Record personal progress.
Logbook of exercise programme – This must include a full description of how the exercise has progressed
over the last 3 weeks. Include positives and negatives.
Exercise undertaken Evaluation
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Week 1 Positives- was nice hard work could feel the burn

11. Negatives- was hard work and was a 1hour drive to get there, costs money
Week 2 Positives- the course was getting easyer and the laps where getting faster
Negative- becoming less hard work so had to do more
Week 3 Positives- was final week and pushed myself to the limit
Negatives- was getting very easy