SISSSTC301A - Instruct strength and conditioning techniques

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Unit code: SISSSTC301A | Study level: TAFE
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, knowledge and skills required to use drills, exercises and activities to instruct strength and conditioning techniques to individual athletes or groups of athletes according to their sport-specific needs, or those undertaking fitness programs to achieve personal fitness goals.

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:

  • instruct effective strength and conditioning techniques;
  • give and receive feedback;
  • teamwork skills to be able to coach and mentor an athlete through a strength and conditioning program;
  • technology skills to assess athletes and select exercises and drills for use within the program;
  • planning and organising skills to implement a plan for strength and conditioning for an individual or group, and;
  • literacy and numeracy skills to enable the review of training diaries and the timely completion of sessions.

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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