The teacher is delivering a lecture during the "Physical Fitness Improvement: Exercise and Diet" course. Photo: web

Recently, a course called "Physical Fitness Improvement: Exercise and Diet" has attracted widespread attention on the campus of Peking University. This course not only helped one-third of students successfully lose more than 5 percent of their weight, but also reduced the waist circumference of half of the students by some 5 centimeters, showing significant results. 

It is reported that the course is only open to overweight or obese students with a body mass index (BMI) over 25. According to the introduction, the course combines theory with practice, with theoretical teaching including principles of weight loss, reasonable diet and fat-reducing diet, scientific fitness and exercise prescriptions and more. 

The exercise training part is guided by instructors specializing in different areas for various items of physical fitness testing, including long-distance running, sprinting, and pull-ups. Practical applications include developing personalized weight loss plans, exercise and diet check-ins, weight loss and physical fitness monitoring and evaluation, aiming to help students establish a healthy lifestyle concept, master scientific weight loss methods, develop habits of regular exercise and reasonable diet, improve the body composition of overweight students, enhance physical fitness, and improve physical fitness test scores. 

One of the original intentions of teacher Zhang Xiaoyuan in launching the course was to help students who are anxious about physical fitness testing. On the other hand, "I also opened this course to help everyone establish the correct health concept. Our enrollment requirement is BMI over 25, as long as the weight or body fat is within the normal range, it is considered a normal body shape. These students do not need to lose weight." Zhang also hopes that through this special and very clear enrollment requirement, those students who do not need to lose weight will correctly view their body shape.