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.Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
- legislative and regulatory requirements regarding personal training, equipment use and selection;
- organisational policies and procedures;
- industry endorsed client pre-exercise health screening processes;
- industry endorsed risk stratification procedures, exercise implications and referral requirements;
- program planning for improvement of health- and skill-related components of fitness;
- safety and preparation considerations for the use of plyometric training in personal training;
- program design and variables relevant to the combination of health- and skill-related components of fitness in the client's program;
- suitable training and monitoring techniques and exercises to achieve improved functioning;
- training principles relevant to the health- and skill-related components of fitness in the client's program;
- training methods and consideration of intensity, program types, sets and reps, circuits, matrices, super-sets, pre-fatigue and interval training;
- types of conditioning and training, and expected adaptations, including timing;
- client considerations and needs;
- application of exercise science, anatomy, physiology, biomechanics considerations to fitness activities and personal training programs;
- manufacturer and exercise equipment specifications for safe use and techniques;
- signs and symptoms of exercise intolerance and appropriate management strategies;
- common barriers to exercise participation;
- different learning styles of clients and methods to adapt training to suit these learning styles, and;
- motivational techniques.
