Group exercise and fitness
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| Module: |
Physiotherapy |
| ECTS: |
3 |
| Contact hours – lectures: |
20 |
| Contact hours – seminar: |
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| Contact hours – clinical exercises: |
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| Contact hours – clinical practice: |
50 |
| Holder of subject: |
Dr Darija Šćepanović, Assistant Professor |
| Year of study: |
First
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Group exercise and fitness
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| Contact hours – lectures: |
20 |
| Contact hours – seminar: |
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| Contact hours – clinical exercises: |
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| Contact hours – clinical practice: |
50 |
| Holder of subject: |
Dr Darija Šćepanović, Assistant Professor |
| Education providers: |
- Dr Eva Uršej, Assistant professor
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| Level of study: |
First Bologna cycle professional education study program |
| Semester: |
Winter |
| Language: |
Slovene/English
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| Subject-specific competences: |
- Compilation and design individual exercise units (suitable warm up - the first part, the main part of the final part)
- Training in the gym (special features, options, usability, suitability, ...)
- Various forms of group exercise classes (use of different devices, adaptation to the target group, ...)
- Setting targets group exercise
- Setting targets individual workout in the gym
- Methodology of management of group sessions (with music, gradation of severity, your target audience)
- Method of work in the gym (relative to the exercising employed, the rules of fitness, ...)
Creating an exercise plan for individual exercise and a longer period depending on the desired targets (exercise before / after surgery before / after childbirth, chronic patients in the rehabilitation period, ...).
Objectives and competences:
- Ability to prepare and plan the individual exercise
- Understand the importance of heating, the main part and final part of the training unit
- Understand the difference between fitness and group exercise
- Ability to draw up a plan of training (group or individual fitness) depending on the desired objective
- Ability to relevant methodical procedures to keep various forms of exercise
- Ability to differentiate training in various specific populations (pregnant women, women after childbirth, preparation for surgery, ...)
- Ability to understand the laws and the process of physical exercise and the its impact on changing psychomotor abilities.
Knowledge and understanding:
- Knowing the response of the organism in the process of physical exercise in various specific populations (patients with chronic diseases, pregnant women, women after childbirth, ...);
- Importance of the design group training and individual workouts in the gym;
- Setting goals and workouts to verify the effectiveness of exercise;
- Proper management of group and individual sessions.
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| Mandatory references: |
- ACSM's Resources for the Group Exercise Instructor, 2011. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- ACSM’s Foundations of Strength Training and Conditioning, 2011. Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Kennedy-Armbruster, C. & Yoke, M., 2014. Methods of Group Exercise Instruction – 3rd ed. Human Kinetics.
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| Recommended references: |
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| Study obligations: |
50% obligatory attendance at lectures
100% obligatory attendance at seminars
submitted and presented seminar work |
| Assessment methods: |
written examination (100%) |
