About This Unit

The fitness training industry is booming with both sporting and non-sporting people going to gyms and engaging with trainers or fitness coaches. Sports coaches and athletes are always striving for the marginal gains that will lead to improved performance and success. Specialised fitness training provides the tools and framework to identify the key performance factors and target fitness training programmes for an athlete’s improvement.

You will explore the fitness requirements, physical characteristics and demands of sports that contribute to effective training and sports performance. You will then investigate methods of training for physical and skill-related fitness that will improve this performance. You will then examine the principles that underpin the design of periodised training programmes and training sessions. Finally, you will carry out the planning of programmes and training sessions for a chosen sport.

This unit will prepare you for progression to higher education or a career in sport coaching or the fitness industry, by developing your skills of interpretation and presentation of information, as well as the analysis and understanding of sports training and performance.