Aerobics

N/A

TP contents are presented in expository sessions. The PL is consolidated with the experience of the activity and situations of pedagogical practice.
This CU, eminently practical, has the exclusively continuous assessment modality [100% = 20 values] considering the items:
1. Practical evaluations (50%).
1.1. Warm up (35%).
1.2. Stretching/relaxing (15%).
2. Technical performance (15%).
3. Work (30%).
4. Presential participation (5%).
Note: for approval, the student must have a minimum of 50% in items 1 and 2, and 50% in item 3.
Under point 8 of the 13th article of the Academic Regulations of the 1st Cycle of Studies of the ESE-IPC, the student must comply with the following specific conditions for access to the exam:
1. Have attended at least 50% of classes.
The exam consists of a theoretical (30%) and a practical evaluation (70%).
Note: for approval the student must have a minimum of 50% in both, theoretical and practical.

1. Understand the specificity of the sports and fitness activities (history and evolution, current trends, range of activities, facilities and materials).
2. Plan and conduct the Aerobics activity, at a basic level, applying appropriate technics and choreographic methods adapted to the characteristics of the participants.
3. Adopt the intervention strategies more suitable to the specificity of the context.

1. Gyms sports practice.
2. Gyms and fitness sports activities spectrum.
3. Origin and evolution of the fitness concept.
4. Group fitness activities.
4.1. The music as a “tool work”.
4.2. The session type: structure.
4.3. Planification and choreographic writing.
4.4. The quality of the Group Exercise Fitness Instructor (GEFI).
5. Aerobics.
5.1. Origin, characteristics, objectives, benefits and equipment used.
5.2. Exercises, execution technique, critical components common errors.
5.3. Type session: structure, methodology of choreographic construction.
5.4. Specificity of pedagogical intervention (instruction, command orders, feedback, demonstration, communication, positioning).
5.5. Methodology of the choreographic construction: total piramid, pairs piramid, association, progression, addition and addition-subtraction.

• - Practical evaluation - 70.0%
• - Theoretical evaluation - 30.0%

• - Individual and/or Group Work - 30.0%
• - Attendance and Participation - 5.0%
• - Technical performance - 15.0%
• - Practical evaluations - 50.0%

NAO

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