Peking University offers weight loss courses for obese students with BMI over 25

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, enhance physical fitness, and improve physical fitness test scores.

One of the original intentions of teacher Zhang 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.