How can exercise assessment and prescription be personalised?
Content Point Three
Explain how exercise assessment can assist in developing training programs
NESA Glossary of Key Words:
Explain - Relate cause and effect; make the relationships between things evident; provide why and/or how.
How can exercise assessment assist in the development of training programs?
How can exercise assessment and prescription be personalised?
Content Point Three
Explain how exercise assessment can assist in developing training programs
NESA Glossary of Key Words:
Explain - Relate cause and effect; make the relationships between things evident; provide why and/or how.
Personalising Training Goals and Methods
How can exercise assessment and prescription be personalised?
Content Point Three
Explain how exercise assessment can assist in developing training programs
NESA Glossary of Key Words:
Explain - Relate cause and effect; make the relationships between things evident; provide why and/or how.
Tracking Progress and Periodisation
Learning Activities
1. Considering their lifestyle factors and potential physical activity contraindications, design a training session for one of the fictional people below;
- Eva, 17, exercises regularly but has a family history of breast cancer.
- Lionel, 18, eats fast food often and has high blood pressure.
- Aisha, 16, smokes occasionally and has a parent with type 2 diabetes.
- Jeb, 17, plays sport but never goes for check-ups or dental visits.
2. In small groups, design questions that could be used to assess an athlete’s progress and then role play implementing these questions.
Revision Questions
1. Identify components of an exercise assessment.
2. Describe examples of how an understanding of lifestyle factors may influence training programs.
3. Explain how exercise assessment can assist in developing training programs.
4. Analyse the importance of identifying physical activity contraindications through exercise assessments.
5. Justify the need for exercise assessments to inform training programs.
Sample Answers
Sample answers coming soon.
