Teaching Basics
The majority of the fitness class including activities with a singular or integrated focus on cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, or mindfulness
What is the body of the workout?
This test implies if a participant is working too hard to speak, the intensity is too high
What is the talk test?
the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to sustain repeated contractions against a resistance for an extended period of time
What is muscular endurance?
decreases in intensity or difficulty
What is a regression?
This part of class should include a warm welcome, statement of the instructors name and class title, and an overview of the workout and equipment.
What is the introduction?
This scale uses a numeric order to represent how participants perceive their relative difficulty in terms of breathing. +1 being mild up to +4 being severely difficult.
What is the Dyspnea scale?
Performing a ______ without perfect form can result in exacerbating movement dysfunction
What is a stretch?
incremental increases in intensity or difficulty
The objectives of this phase of class are to reduce workout intensity to pre-workout levels, and complete the experience (Start to finish connectivity)
What is the transition or cool down?
The subjective technique to evaluate how hard on feels they are working and the two versions used for measurement
What is rating of perceived exertion, measured with the Borg scale and the modified Borg scale?
Class format promoting compound movements to achieve specific goals
what are strength-based exercises?
In this class format regressions should focus on reducing impact
what are cardio-based exercises?
The instructors ability to create a seamless class experience from start to finish
What is class flow
RPE scale rating from 6 to 10. 6 being no exertion at all and 20 being maximal exertion
What is the Borg scale?
explosive short term energy without the need for oxygen
What is anaerobic exercise?
in this class format exercise can be progressed or regressed by increasing or decreasing resistance or speed
what are cycle-based exercises?