Students will discover how to design exercise programs for improving a client’s aerobic and anaerobic capacity. In addition, students will be introduced to the fundamental concepts in movement screening, vocational fitness testing (e.g. police and paramedic), circuit training, and instability training.
Target population: Adults (18-65), healthy
- Course Instructor: Lyndsay Fitzgeorge
- Lab Instructors: Lyndsay Fitzgeorge
- Lab Technician: Jasmine Collins
- Semester: Three
Lab Sections:
- Section 1: Thursday 2 – 4 PM
- Section 2: Thursday 12 – 2 PM
- Section 3: Wednesday 2 – 4 PM
- Section 4: Wednesday 4 – 6 PM
| Course: PHRE 1041 - Principles of Fitness | Movement Pattern: Core | flexion | Target: Rectus Abdominus | Synergist(s): Obliques, Transverse Abdominus |
| Exercise |  | ||
| Regressions: | Crunch | Progressions: | Stability Ball Pike | TRX Pike |
| Key Teaching Points | Expectation: [if 456 equals="Supervised Practice"]Supervised Practice [/if 456][if 456 not_equal="Supervised Practice"]Independent Learning[/if 456] | [579] | |
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| Description: | Set-up Have client lie on their back on the floor with one leg extended straight and flat on the floor. The knee of the opposite leg should be bent and the foot flat. Have client place their hands hands palms down on the floor underneath the natural arch in their lower back. (Make sure client does not flatten their backs.) Execution Have client slowly raise their head and shoulders off the floor without bending the lower back or spine, and hold this position for 7 to 10 seconds, breathing deeply the entire time. That's one repetition. Do all repetitions. In subsequent sets, switch legs that are extended. | ||
| Common Error(s): | Inappropriate momentum | ||
| Spotting: | |||