Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Each student may wish to purchase swim goggles, which are recommended, but not required. Swimsuits are required ? must be in good condition and clean, no cut-offs. Swim caps are optional. Hair is not permitted to hang in the face. Towels, lockers, and locks are provided to each student on a check?out basis.

•  Improve general and swimming fitness levels for maintaining lifelong health and fitness.
• Develop and apply proper swimming skills and technique for lifelong enjoyment of swimming.
• Incorporate the back crawl, breast stroke, and butterfly into future swim conditioning workouts.
• Apply knowledge and respect for universal water safety and rules around the pool environment.

• Assess intensity using target heart rate and rating of perceived exertion.
• Perform various training methods including interval, fartlek, long
• slow-distance,and continuous.
• Demonstrate proper warm-up, cool down, and flexibility exercises for swimming.
• Demonstrate proper use of equipment including fins, paddles, pull buoys, kickboards.
• Perform skill drills and games including 2 pool swims, finger drag, vertical flutter kicking, presso your buoy, catch-up stroke, swimming golf, water polo, relay races, diving, and timed swims.o Interact and share swimming knowledge in a group setting.

• Beginning, ongoing, and end of term skill and fitness assessments.
• Video tape stroke analysis, and teacher observation
• Class participation

• Safety aspects of aquatics
• Swimming training methods? Hydrodynamic principles
• Skill/fitness development and improvement
• Lap swimming etiquette? Opportunities for community/competitive swimming
• Creating a positive environment for enjoying swimming training
• Benefits of a physically active lifestyle
• Workout variations ( incorporating the breast stroke, back crawl, butterfly into workouts).