Unit Focus
This unit explores how exercise professionals use assessment and screening tools to ensure safe, effective, and individualised programs. Students will investigate how exercise prescription can be tailored to meet the needs of recreational participants and elite athletes, and how testing and evaluation support improvements in health, participation, and performance.
Syllabus Points:
Explain the importance of using a pre-exercise questionnaire and undertaking relevant health screening by exercise and fitness professionals
Discuss the use of performance/fitness testing for recreational participants and elite athletes to improve their health, participation and performance
Explain how exercise assessment can assist in developing training programs