Optional Sport I - Hydro

Recommended Prerequisites

Group activities with music / fitness.

Teaching Methods

Collective teaching sessions, tutorial-type individual guidance sessions, projects, field work, independent study.

Learning Outcomes

Development of teaching strategies adapted to water aerobics.

Assessment, planning and pedagogical intervention considering the students' abilities level.

Deepening of scientific knowledge related to the teaching of water aerobics.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Characteristics of work in water (characteristics and dynamics of water and its influence on the intensity of the class).

Heart rate theories (differences between working in water and on land).

Speed of Execution. Musical Structure vs Choreographic Structure.

Posture and physical execution of basic moves.

Choreographic development.

Contraindicated exercises.

Instructor profile.

Adaptations of the class to different populations (children, adults, sedentary, athletes, seniors, pregnant women).

Head Lecturer(s)

Luís Manuel Pinto Lopes Rama

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Preparation and submission of a hydro class: 100.0%

Bibliography

Aquatic Fitness Professional Manual (2008), Nokomis. Aquatic Exercise Association.

Adami, M. (2002). Aquafitness. DK publishing

Dantas, E. (1998). -  A prática da preparação física 4ª ed .- Rio de Janeiro. Shape,

Marins, J. ; Giannichi, R. ,(1998). - Avaliação & Prescrição de Actividade Física2ª Rio de Janeiro. Shape

Katch, F; McArdle, W. (1998)- Nutrição, Exercício e Saúde.

Sanders, (1999). M. YMCA Water Fitness Human Kinetics publisher.

See, J. (1992).  – Aqua Aerobics Iowa. Eddie Bowers Publishing, inc..