CCOG for PE 181D Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- PE 181D
- Course Title:
- Interval Training I
- Credit Hours:
- 1
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 30
Course Description
Focuses on improvements in cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness using interval training. 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 the course students should be able to:
- Increase levels of physical fitness through continued participation in interval training.
- Perform safe and effective warm ups and cool downs specific to interval training when exercising.
- Apply proper technique for safe and effective participation in interval training.
Aspirational Goals
- Develop a life-long fitness, health, and wellness program that incorporates the use of intervals.
Course Activities and Design
- 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
- 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
- Components of fitness-related physical fitness and their benefits for life-long fitness
- Personal fitness assessments
- Goal Setting
- Modification of exercises for various conditions or individual fitness levels