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- Effective Term:
- Winter 2018 through Fall 2024
- Course Number:
- PE 181E
- Course Title:
- Interval Training II
- Credit Hours:
- 1
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 30
Course Description
Emphasizes continued improvements in both cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness via interval training at an intermediate level. Involves a series of low- to high-intensity workouts interspersed with rest/recovery periods. Includes the use of weights and a wide variety of functional fitness training equipment.
Audit available.
Addendum to Course Description
Students will learn & experience both a warm up and cool down in each training session.
Fitness assessments may be offered as a part of this class.
Monitoring intensity levels is key in interval training and students will learn and utilize heart rate, rate of perceived exertion and/or the talk test.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of this course students should be able to:
- Improve levels of physical fitness through continued participation in interval training.
- Perform safe and effective warm ups up and cool downs specific to interval training when exercising.
- Apply proper techniques at an intermediate level for safe and effective participation in interval training.
Aspirational Goals
Develop a life-long fitness, health, and wellness program that incorporates the use of interval training.
Course Activities and Design
- Continued improvement of overall physical fitness
- SAQ Training
- Plyometric Training
- Timing of intervals & relation to intensity level of activity/exercise
- Functional Fitness Training
- Monitoring intensity levels via heart rate, rate of perceived exertion & talk test
- Both Aerobic & Anaerobic Fitness Training
- Develop interval or circuit fitness training sessions for personal use
Outcome Assessment Strategies
- Pre/post fitness assessments
- Develop & perform an individual interval training session/program
- Active participation and effort
- Written assignments and/or quizzes
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- Benefits of interval training
- Interval times (work bout vs. rest/recover bout)
- Care and use of equipment
- Monitoring intensity levels via heart rate, rate of perceived exertion & talk test
- Benefits of both warm-ups and cool-downs, as well as appropriate session components
- Describe each component of physical fitness and explain the benefits of each for life-long fitness
- Personal fitness assessments
- Goal Setting
- Modification of exercises for various conditions or individual fitness levels