Exercise to Music (ETM)
This is the baseline qualification required by the Leisure Industry for those who wish to teach group fitness aerobic style classes.
The course covers a range of subjects such as:
UNIT 1 Exercise and Fitness Knowledge:
ó Components of fitness
ó Heart, lungs and circulatory systems
ó Skeletal system
ó Neuromuscular system
ó Energy systems
ó Kinesiology
ó Pre-activity screening
UNIT 2 Health, safety and professionalism in exercise and fitness instruction
ó Health and safety
ó Equipment preparation
ó Risk assessment and management
ó Emergency situations
ó Ethical practice
ó Professionalism
UNIT 4 Instructing exercise to music
ó Warm Up
ó Cardiovascular workout
ó Muscular strength and Endurance
ó Cool Down and Flexibility
ó Progression
ó Gathering recording and using information
ó Writing a session plan
ó Delivering a session with a client
ó Teaching skills
ó Safe and effective exercises
ó Teaching
ó Use of music
ó Progression and adaptations of exercises
ó Choreography
Assessment:
UNIT 1 - written test
UNIT 2 - series of questions
UNIT 3 - interview a client, complete a case study, plan an exercise session, deliver this session and evaluate it afterwards.
All the candidate's evidence for the qualification will be compiled in a Portfolio and presented to the Assessor. This will then in turn be internally and externally verified.
