Group Exercise Instruction, Design & Management

Catalog description

This class teaches the skills needed to design, instruct and manage a fitness or wellness class/program based on organizational and individual needs. These skills include ensuring the safety and efficacy of group exercise endeavors and addressing members’ social dynamics, physical activity types, expertise levels, and environmental/emergency situations. Students learn evidence-based best practices regarding instruction techniques, choreography principles, exercise class components (warm-up, endurance, and cool-down components), group facilitation, and class management (intensity, pacing, duration) in an exercise setting. Students are also required complete an online Adults CPR/AED Online course through American Red Cross. Prerequisite(s): SC 107 .