Assessor / Mr Watts
Date issued / 2 September 2015
Final deadline / 8th October
Duration (approx) / 10 hours
Qualification suite covered / BTEC Level 1/Level 2 First Award in Sport
Units covered / Unit 5: Training for Personal Fitness
Learning aims covered / Learning aim A: Design a personal fitness training programme
Scenario / So, how fit are you? Your Gang Warily sports centre has launched a ‘Get Fit’ initiative for schools and colleges in the area to get young people to design, implement and review a personal fitness training programme to achieve their training goals.
You may safely incorporate any training method(s) you like into your programme – this is your chance to make sure your training is as exciting and fun as possible!
Task 1 / Training programme design
In this task, you need to independently design a six-week fitness training programme. As part of this assignment, you need to complete the following:
· Collect personal information including: personal goals, aims and objectives, a medical history questionnaire, a lifestyle and physical activity questionnaire, and attitudes and personal motivation for training.
· From this information, discuss with your tutor/classmate your key strengths and areas for improvement that might influence how you design your training programme.
· Based on the personal information, independently design a safe six-week fitness training programme.
· Include in your training programme, details of how you plan to warm up and cool down for each exercise session and an overall summary of the importance of these components in an exercise session.
· Discuss with your tutor/a classmate why you have included the particular training activities, saying how they link back to your personal information (e.g. how your training programme will meet your training goals).
· Produce a table that: details each of the principles of training, including what they are and how you have used them in your training plan.
· Discuss with your tutor/a classmate how you have planned to maintain exercise adherence, how you will prevent/avoid barriers to training and how you will make sure your training stays enjoyable.
Evidence you must produce for this task / · Personal information forms
· Written training programme design
· Principles of training table relating to your training programme
· Discussion notes
· Tutor observation/witness testimony form.
Criteria covered by this task:
To achieve the criteria you must show that you are able to: / Unit / Criterion reference
Summarise personal information for designing a fitness training programme. / 5 / 2A.P1
Independently design a safe six-week personal fitness training programme. / 5 / 2A.P2
Describe the principles of training and their application to the personal fitness training programme design. / 5 / 2A.P3
Assess personal information for fitness training programme design. / 5 / 2A.M1
Design a safe six-week personal fitness training programme, showing creativity in the design. / 5 / 2A.M2
Justify the training programme design, explaining links to personal information. / 5 / 2A.D1
Sources of information / Textbooks
Adams, M., Armstrong, R., Gledhill, A., Hancock, J., Harris, B., Phillippo, P. and Sergison, A., BTEC First in Sport Student Book, Pearson Education, 2012 ISBN 978 1 44690 161 8
Ackland, J., The Complete Guide to Endurance Training, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978 0 71367 903 8
Bean, A., The Complete Guide to Strength Training, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-1 40810 539 9
Hope, R. and Lawrence, D., The Complete Guide to Circuit Training, A & C Black, 2011 ISBN 978 1 40815 635 3
Lawrence, M., The Complete Guide to Core Stability, A & C Black, 2011 ISBN 978 1 40813 324 8
Norris, C. M., The Complete Guide to Stretching, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978 1 71368 348 6
Shepherd, J., The Complete Guide to Sports Training, A & C Black, 2006 ISBN 978 0 71367 835 2
Websites
www.brianmac.co.uk/trainprog
www.livestrong.com/fitness
www.sport-fitness-advisor.com
www.thinqfitness.com/video.asp
If you have not achieved the Level 2 criteria, your work will be assessed to determine if the following Level 1 criteria have been met.
To achieve the criteria you must show that you are able to: / Unit / Criterion reference
Outline personal information for designing a fitness training
programme. / 5 / 1A.1
Design a safe four-week personal fitness training programme, with guidance. / 5 / 1A.2
Outline the importance of warm-up, cool down and FITT. / 5 / 1A.3
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