Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Students will learn & experience both a warm up and cool down in each training session.

Fitness assessments may be offered as a part of this class.

Monitoring intensity levels is key in interval training and students will learn and utilize heart rate, rate of perceived exertion and/or the talk test.

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

• Increase levels of physical fitness through continued participation in interval training.
• Perform safe and effective warm ups and cool downs specific to interval training when exercising.
• Apply proper technique for safe and effective participation in interval training.

• Develop a life-long fitness, health, and wellness program that incorporates the use of intervals. 

• SAQ Training
• Plyometric Training
• Timing of intervals & relation to intensity level of activity/exercise
• Functional Fitness Training
• Monitoring intensity levels via heart rate, rate of perceived exertion & talk test
• Both Aerobic & Anaerobic Fitness Training
• Develop interval or circuit fitness training sessions for personal use

• Pre/Post fitness assessments
• Active participation and effort
• Written assignments and/or quizzes

•   Benefits of interval training
•   Interval times (work bout vs. rest/recover bout)
•   Care and use of equipment
•   Monitoring intensity levels via heart rate, rate of perceived exertion & talk test
•   Benefits of both warm-ups and cool-downs, as well as appropriate session components
•   Components of fitness-related physical fitness and their benefits for life-long fitness
•   Personal fitness assessments
•   Goal Setting
•   Modification of exercises for various conditions or individual fitness levels