Professional advancement for those working in the fitness business.
Get a competitive edge over other fitness instructors and personal trainers.
While earning CPR credits is vital, so is honing your knowledge and abilities as a fitness professional. Give your clients more by outperforming other fitness industry pros.
You will gain more sophisticated knowledge and skills in this course that will enable you to outperform the competition.
Lesson Structure
There are 6 lessons in this course:
- Organising a Class
- Understanding differences in anaerobic and aerobic energy supply
- The importance of proper breathing
- Different training responses
- Movements in aerobics
- Methods of teaching
- Music and sound systems
- Safety and Efficiency
- What is safety?
- Incorrect exercises
- Safety in other aerobic activities
- First aid considerations
- Oxygen equipment
- Identifying hazards
- Legal liability
- Negligence
- How to provide protection for yourself
- Pre-screening of clients and medical clearance
- Insurance
- Managing the Workload
- Fitness and heart rates
- Fitness tests and assessment
- What do we test?
- What can we measure?
- Body weight and percentage fat
- Hydrostatic – underwater weighing
- Lung capacity
- Cardiovascular scoring
- Field evaluation of cardiorespiratory endurance
- 12-Minute fitness test
- Designing fitness tests
- Test conditions and test combinations
- Teaching
- Managing exercise programs
- Devising sets of relevant exercises
- Types of classes
- Classes for different types of people
- Motivational factors
- Dealing with complaints
- Class Design
- Fitness/Aerobics Class Design
- Recommended Practices
- Writing an exercise program
- A typical aerobics class – Introduction, warm up, main exercises and recovery.
- Muscle conditioning during the class
- Concluding the exercise program
- Exercises for specific problems
- Leadership and Participation
- Leadership concepts
- Leadership responsibilities
- Leadership communication
- Common communication barriers
- Understanding body language
- Desirable leadership characteristics
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Aims
- Create and coordinate cohesive exercises that work well with music and for classes that are moving forward.
- Create sets of pertinent exercises for your lesson plans.
- Connect exercise patterns to musical tracks
- Buy music and use proper music mapping to arrange multiple songs
- Learn how to teach aerobics using the Add On, Link, and Linear Progression approaches.
- Get familiar with music licencing
- Recognize and abide by all regulations for movement efficiency and safety.
- Create classes that include movement and safe fitness techniques to music.
- Recognize equipment usage, maintenance, and considerations.
- Recognize the significance of ventilation, temperature, floor surface, hygienic practises, appropriate attire, and footwear.
- Set the length and intensity of each class.
- Assess the workload in a class and use training materials to create well-graded classes.
- Develop proper exercise routines, and instruct students verbally and by example.
- Recognize the advised techniques, including layering, visual preview, choreography, and phrasing.
- Recognize the various elements of a class.
- Describe ways to accommodate various fitness levels and specific populations.
- Conduct a workout for the music class while adhering to the best teaching practises.
- Take part in a range of training programmes set to music while maintaining regulated and effective movement.
- Describe typical injuries, their treatments, and ways to avoid them for people taking aerobics programmes.
Advantages of aerobic workouts include:
Improved circulation and even higher immunity are results of increased heart muscle activity, which also strengthens the heart.
Using kilojoules, tone the muscles to reduce body fat (increase BMI score) and alter the general form of the body!
Reduce the chance of back discomfort and other frequent injuries (illnesses) associated with weak muscles by strengthening your core body!
Release endorphins into the circulation for a natural high!
How Should You Breathe During Exercise?
When engaging in aerobic exercise, it’s critical to maximise our oxygen intake, which requires two things:
your breathing pattern
the standard of the air you breathe
It is possible to do the following by maximising the oxygen supply:
Greater lung elasticity
the blood volume rises
Heart health improves.
Blood circulation is improved.
Muscle performance increases as a result of improved cell metabolism, which also results in more effective removal of waste products from the cells.
Exercise reduces the probability of hyperventilation.
Application of Breathing in Real Life
Prior to aerobic exercise, breathing exercises may be added into the warm-up period. It will help with muscle activity and endurance to increase oxygen levels in the body prior to exercise. After a workout, breathing exercises can help the body feel refreshed and help the heartbeat return to normal.
The Breath You TakeThink about your breathing patterns and how they affect your health. Is it shallow or deep? It is thought that deep breathing is beneficial for general health. Do you breathe quickly or slowly? While calm, it’s crucial to breathe slowly. Do you inhale air through your mouth or your nose? The nasal passage’s built-in filtration system is used when breathing through the nose.
The Air You Breathe Is of What Qualitative
Think about how your health may be impacted by the quality of the air you breathe:
A/C systems: These devices can disperse airborne viruses.
Pollen, dust, and other allergens can cause breathing difficulties in many people.
the benefits of exercising near greenery because the air there is more oxygenated. Everyone needs fresh air, especially those who engage in activities that need a lot of oxygen.
training at high altitudes: atmospheric oxygen content. The oxygen level decreases as altitude rises, despite being employed as a preseason training technique.
