SISFFIT021 - Instruct personal training programs

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Unit code: SISFFIT021 | Study level: TAFE
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to plan, instruct and evaluate personal training programs for a variety of clients in both controlled and uncontrolled environments. It requires the ability to plan individualised programs for clients who have completed industry endorsed pre-exercise screening and risk stratification procedures.

This unit applies to personal trainers who typically work autonomously in controlled and uncontrolled fitness environments. Work is performed according to relevant legislation and organisational policies and procedures.

Assessment

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Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills which must include period(s) totalling at least ten hours comprising at least ten different client contact sessions in a mixture of controlled and uncontrolled environments:

  • plan, document, implement and evaluate at least five personal training plans that meet specific needs and goals of individual clients, and;
  • conduct sessions that individually or cumulatively incorporate: a variety of indoor and outdoor training environments, methods, and equipment; resistance training; cardiovascular training techniques; demonstration, explanation, and instruction of exercises; injury prevention strategies specific to client needs and program; appropriate and motivating instructional techniques to increase exercise adherence and positive health and fitness habits, and; modify personal training plans for clients.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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