Optional Sport II - Hydro

Recommended Prerequisites

Group activities with music / fitness.

Teaching Methods

Teaching sessions of a collective nature, personal guidance sessions tutorial-type, projects, field work, independent study. At the end of the semester students will prepare and submit a hydro class, respecting the guidelines provided along the contact sessions.

Learning Outcomes

Development of teaching strategies adapted to aquatic exercises with materials.
Assessment, planning and educational intervention with the level of students' abilities. Safety and Contraindications to the use of materials.
Deepening of scientific knowledge related to the teaching of gymnastics using different materials, and the reasons justifying the practice of your choice.
At the end of the semester the student (a) should be able to teach an aerobics class with different materials and fluctuating drag, performing the movements correctly and in its respect for the musical meter.
You should be able to adjust the intensity of the class to different types of people and interact with the same (on both a technical and motivational) using different types of materials and structures of class, being able to justify and give reasons for your choice.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Benefits and strategies of working with different didactic materials,
Issues of security, storage, maintenance, acquisition
Support materials, fluctuation, drag, others ... (characterization)
Adapting didactic materials to different populations.
Analysis of the type of movement, muscle contraction, planes and axes.
Strategies for working choreography and core.

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..