Class Fitness II (Individual Activities)

The Fitness II curricular unit falls within a set of Curricular Units that aim to provide students with tools for future professional practice as exercise physiologist. The CU is based on the recommendations of leading national and international bodies, looking for a sustained professional practice supported by scientific evidence.

Moreover, the organization of classes and contents aims to provide the conceptual and practical framework that allows in later years a gradual articulation and application of knowledge, aiming at a deeper content exploration. For this, a period of observation in real context (i.e. gyms) will also be held where the articulation of the contents worked with the reality of these spaces will be promoted.

It is expected that it will be reached as a final training product in the exercise and health/ fitness subject, professionals with the ability to adapt their practice to most emerging situations of practice, and with the ability to lift the professional area.

• Conceptual and historical background
  • Health and Wellbeing: 21st Century Salutogenic Profile
  • Origin and evolution of fitness activities at national and international level
  • Overview and practice trends

• Professional background
  • The inter- and multidisciplinary nature of the exercise physiologist
  • Exercise physiologist in its multiple valences in the context of health club

• Human movement kinesiology
  • Taxonomy (s) of human movement
  • Function analysis and muscle participation
  • Neuromuscular integration processes

• Structure and organization of the training session
  • The training session: structure, organization and promotion
  • Construction variables and training control

• Exploration of activities, materials and spaces
  • Analysis of individual activities in different practice spaces
  • Exploration of materials and equipment
  • Practice integration into the training session

There will be, throughout the year, in the continuous assessment regime, four evaluation moments, two practical and two theoretical, which are structured by weight as follows:

• Written tests: 60% (30% each, to be held at the end of each semester)
• Practical assessments: 40% (20% each)
• Kinesiological analysis of a practical situation with adaptation to a proposed case (end 1st semester)
• Case-study analisys and resolution in the exercise room (end 2nd semester)

The average of all evaluation elements must be equal to or greater than 9.5 to obtain approval. Partial classifications less than 7.5 values ¿¿imply taking an exam. Taking an exam will involve the application of a written test, a practical test, and a verification in a verbal/oral register.

-          ACSM (2017). Guidelines for exercise testing and prescription (10th Edition). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

-          ACSM (2014). Resource manual for guidelines for exercise testing and prescription (7th Edition). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

-          Haff, G. & Tripplett, T. (2016). NSCA Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning (4^th Edition). Champaign: Human Kinetics.

-          Mil-homens, P., Correia, P., Mendonça, G. (2015). Treino da Força ¿ Volume 1. Princípios Biológicos e Métodos de Treino. Edições FMH, Cruz Quebrada.

-          Teixeira, D. S., Gaspar, C., Marques, P. (2017). Manual do Técnico de Exercício Físico. Porto Salvo: Edições Manz.