Advanced Aerobics BRE208

Course Structure: Advanced Aerobics BRE208

1. 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
2. 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-screnning of clients and medical clearance
   • Insurance
3. 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
4. Teaching
   
   • Managing exercise programs
   • Devising sets of relevant exercises
   • Types of classes
   • Classes for different types of people
   • Motivational factors
   • Dealing with complaints
5. Class Design
   
   • Fitness/Aerobics Class Design
   • Recommended Practices
   • Writing a 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
6. Leadership and Participation
   
   • Leadership concepts
   • Leadership responsibilities
   • Leadership communication
   • Common communication barriers
   • Understanding body language
   • Desirable leadership characteristics

What you will be doing during this Course

• Plan and organise effective cohesive exercises to use with music and for progressive long
• Devise sets of relevant exercises into class programs
• Relate sequences of exercises to music tracks
• Purchase a tape and map out various songs using correct music mapping
• Learn the Add On, Link and Linear Progression methods of teaching aerobics
• Gain a knowledge of music licensing
• Recognise and observe all guidelines for safety and efficiency of movement.
• Design exercise to music classes, using safe exercise practices and movements.
• Understand equipment considerations, maintenance and usage.
• Understand the importance of ventilation, temperature, floor surface, hygiene, correct
• clothing and footwear.
• Determine different class intensity and duration
• Measure the workload during a class, and use training components to design classes that are well graded.
• Compose correct techniques in exercising and teach by example and verbal instruction,
• Understand recommended practises - layering, visual preview, choreography and phrasing.
• Identify the different components of a class.
• Explain how to cater for different levels of fitness and special populations.
• Lead an exercise to music class, using appropriate teaching principles.
• Participate in a variety of exercise to music classes, moving in a controlled and efficient manner.
• Identify common injuries, treatment and prevention, for participants in aerobics classes.
• Identify current trends, facts and fallacies concerning aerobics.

Learn how to maintain a healthy heart, lungs and circulatory system. Aerobic fitness is critical to maintaining a quality of life and ability to simply move easily without pain or difficulty; whatever age a person is.
This course develops both an understanding of aerobic fitness, and a capacity to help others maintain their level of aerobic fitness, whether as a fitness leader, life coach, sports or health professional, concerned friend or in any other capacity whatsoever.

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the Academy, marked by the Academy's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.