Exercise skills guidance and counsellingLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You can plan exercise that promotes health and functional capacity in a client-oriented manner, taking into account the needs of the target group.
You know and can take into account the special characteristics of different exercise environments when planning exercise instruction and choosing exercises.
You can choose appropriate exercise equipment for individual and group instruction.

Content

How do you create a lesson plan for exercise instruction?
How do you plan client-oriented exercise that promotes health and functional capacity?
How do you consider the needs of different target groups in exercise instruction?
How do you define therapeutic exercise?
How do you define applied exercise?
How do you take into account the special characteristics of different exercise environments when planning exercise instruction and choosing exercises?
How do you choose appropriate exercise equipment for individual and group instruction?

Qualifications

You know the basics of instructing individual and group exercise.
You know the effects of movement and physical activity on health and functional capacity.

Accomplishment methods

Entry-level competence

Students can,
a. use professional vocabulary systematically.
b. look for information in the key information sources of the field.
c. identify interrelated tasks.
e. use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field.
g. justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field.