PEM170 — Water Exercise
PEM 170 - Water Exercise PEM 170 - Water Exercise Credits/Units: 1 cr. This class offers knowledge and skills to keep fit for life. It teaches safe performance of movement and exercise in a progressive approach and offers an opportunity to improve and/or maintain a high level of fitness through application of aerobic training principles in an aquatic environment. Swimming skills are not required. This class is designed for all fitness levels. Students are encouraged to understand their own limitations and work within their bounds. Students will be able to design and teach a 60-minute base-level class. This class will offer instruction and practice in proper aquatic exercise conditioning techniques and safety procedures. The comprehensive workout incorporates aerobic conditioning, muscular strengthening, abdominal toning, and tension-release stretching sections to improve aerobic capacity, strength, and flexibility without the negative effects of gravity. Students will be encouraged to exercise at their own comfort level and engage in a variety of low-impact movements from low to high intensity. This water conditioning class will focus on improving the cardiovascular and muscle systems, but also cover basic principles of exercise science, nutrition, cardiovascular and muscle endurance programming. Workouts will include warm-up, cardio-, muscle-, and core-conditioning, and range of motion exercises both in the shallow and deep pools. Classes might incorporate use of flotation e