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Effective Term:
Summer 2014 through Fall 2016

Course Number:
PE 180M
Course Title:
Swim Conditioning II
Credit Hours:
1
Lecture Hours:
0
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
30

Course Description

Uses aspects of swim skills to improve cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength/endurance, and flexibility. Includes water/land exercises, lap swimming and water games. Incorporates all of the competitive strokes for improved conditioning. Recommended: Swim Conditioning; Intermediate level swim skills or equivalent. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description

Each student may wish to purchase swim goggles, which are recommended, but not required. Swimsuits are required ? must be in good condition and clean, no cut-offs. Swim caps are optional. Hair is not permitted to hang in the face. Towels, lockers, and locks are provided to each student on a check?out basis.

Intended Outcomes for the course

  •  Improve general and swimming fitness levels for maintaining lifelong health and fitness.
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  • Incorporate the back crawl, breast stroke, and butterfly into future swim conditioning workouts.
  • Apply knowledge and respect for universal water safety and rules around the pool environment.

Course Activities and Design

  • Assess intensity using target heart rate and rating of perceived exertion.
  • Perform various training methods including interval, fartlek, long
  • slow-distance,and continuous.
  • Demonstrate proper warm-up, cool down, and flexibility exercises for swimming.
  • Demonstrate proper use of equipment including fins, paddles, pull buoys, kickboards.
  • Perform skill drills and games including 2 pool swims, finger drag, vertical flutter kicking, presso your buoy, catch-up stroke, swimming golf, water polo, relay races, diving, and timed swims.o Interact and share swimming knowledge in a group setting.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

  • Beginning, ongoing, and end of term skill and fitness assessments.
  • Video tape stroke analysis, and teacher observation
  • Class participation

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

  • Safety aspects of aquatics
  • Swimming training methods? Hydrodynamic principles
  • Skill/fitness development and improvement
  • Lap swimming etiquette? Opportunities for community/competitive swimming
  • Creating a positive environment for enjoying swimming training
  • Benefits of a physically active lifestyle
  • Workout variations ( incorporating the breast stroke, back crawl, butterfly into workouts).