About project

The team of three lecturers from the University Sports Centre at the Faculty of Sports Studies, Masaryk University are the authors the project aiming to open and introduce a new sports course named Rollpilates. The course introduces the involvement of the sports aid called “roller” in exercising. The project is based on the experience with the Pilates method, its positive influence on the core muscle strengthening and stretching, on the posture and the muscle dysbalance removal. It also reacts to the interest of university students in Body and Mind exercise forms. The newly established course will be integrated in the regular compulsory and optional semestral offer of the sports courses at the Sports University Centre in the spring term 2016. The course will be taught both in Czech and English language, and it will be offered to Czech students and foreign students coming to the university to study their studying programmes in English here. The ground of the course is the Pilates method, but it focuses on the exercise with rollers primarily. The exercise is enriched with the fascia-oriented training, which is a new kind of exercise based on the use of different stretching methods. The fascia-oriented exercise is gradually being introduced in various sports fields, mainly abroad so far. The opening of the new course was also initiated by the university students´ increasing concern in the modern and interactive conception of the sports education based on the remedial exercise. This is in accordance with the long-term goal of the university to support students´ active and healthy lifestyle, and to encourage university students for the body and health care, and the health prevention.

Rollpilates

Renáta Vychodilová, Hana Vrtělová, Alena Pokorná

Reviewers: Mgr. Lenka Velínská, doc. PaedDr. Jitka Kopřivová, CSc.

First Edition

Published at Masaryk Univerzity, Brno 2015

Project webpages designed by Mgr. Miroslav Fiala

ISBN 978-80-210-8052-2 (PDF version)

© 2015 Renáta Vychodilová, Hana Vrtělová, Alena Pokorná

© 2015 Masarykova univerzita