Advanced Aerobics Warnborough College

Overview

Learn how to maintain a healthy heart, lungs and circulatory system. Aerobic fitness is critical to maintaining a quality of life and ability to simply move easily without pain or difficulty; whatever age a person is.

This Advanced Aerobics course from Warnborough College develops both an understanding of aerobic fitness, and a capacity to help others maintain their level of aerobic fitness, whether as a fitness leader, life coach, sports or health professional, concerned friend or in any other capacity whatsoever.

Learning Outcomes

• Plan and organise effective cohesive exercises to use with music and for progressive long

• Devise sets of relevant exercises into class programs

• Relate sequences of exercises to music tracks

• Purchase a tape and map out various songs using correct music mapping

• Learn the Add On, Link and Linear Progression methods of teaching aerobics

• Gain a knowledge of music licensing

• Recognise and observe all guidelines for safety and efficiency of movement.

• Design exercise to music classes, using safe exercise practices and movements.

• Understand equipment considerations, maintenance and usage.

• Understand the importance of ventilation, temperature, floor surface, hygiene, correct

• clothing and footwear.

• Determine different class intensity and duration

• Measure the workload during a class, and use training components to design classes that are well graded.

• Compose correct techniques in exercising and teach by example and verbal instruction,

• Understand recommended practises – layering, visual preview, choreography and phrasing.

• Identify the different components of a class.

• Explain how to cater for different levels of fitness and special populations.

• Lead an exercise to music class, using appropriate teaching principles.

• Participate in a variety of exercise to music classes, moving in a controlled and efficient manner.

• Identify common injuries, treatment and prevention, for participants in aerobics classes.

• Identify current trends, facts and fallacies concerning aerobics.