Pratical Sports - Aerobics

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Education sessions in group with tutorial kind of personal guidance in practical classes, fieldwork inserted in specific tasks carried out in practical classes.

Learning Outcomes

The course aims to promote interest and knowledge through an area in continuous expansion and a vast labor market.

In terms of general objectives, the student must:

  1. Mastering a set of content that enable them to understand and frame the scope of activities and objectives of aerobics;

  2. Acquire and master the basic motor skills of aerobics, as well as music in order to develop small choreographies;

  3. Acquire theoretical and practical knowledge about the teaching-learning process, teaching methodology and classroom intervention techniques.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Wellness concepts, Fitness and Aerobics;

- Structure of an fitness class;

- Music, phrase and block musical identification;

- Motor skills as the essence of aerobics class, transitions;

- Current Change vs. complexity;

- Choreographic methods.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Attendance; punctuality; dedication: 30.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 70.0%

Bibliography

* ACSM Fitness Book. American College of Sports Medicine – 2ª ed. 1998

* Akiau. P. Aeróbica: fundamentação metodológica, produção coreográfica e desenvolvimento do ensino (1995). Coleção Fitness Brasil

* Monteiro, A. Ginástica Aeróbica, estrutura e metodologia (1996). Centro de Informações Desportivas

* Cerca, L. Metodologia da Ginástica de grupo (1999). Colecção Fitness é Manz

* Sánchez, D. Bases para la ensenanza del aerobic (1999). Editorial Gymnos