SISFFIT049 — Use exercise science principles in fitness instruction

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What an assessment for SISFFIT049 must cover

24 assessable components: 3 elements (8 performance criteria), 3 performance evidence and 10 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 3 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Identify information sources for exercise science principles relevant to fitness instruction.

1.1Identify credible sources of evidence-based information about exercise science principles that are relevant to fitness instruction.
1.2Review information and identify how exercise science principles relate to safe and optimum training and client fitness improvements.
1.3Interpret exercise science terminology and its application to fitness instruction.

2 Incorporate exercise science principles in fitness instruction.

2.1Identify relevance of exercise science principles to individual clients at different stages and levels of exercise activity.
2.2Design programs for individual clients that consider client characteristics and goals and appropriate exercise science principles.
2.3Monitor and adjust programs consistent with exercise science principles.

3 Maintain and update knowledge of exercise science.

3.1Identify and use opportunities to update and expand knowledge of exercise science relevant to scope of practice for personal trainers.
3.2Use critical thinking processes to evaluate changing and emerging evidence-based information and its application to fitness instruction.

Performance evidence

source information from credible sources about the exercise science principles of: adaptation, overload, specificity, individualisation, progression and regression, reversibility
evaluate key aspects of the above information relevant to fitness instruction and identify how it can be used to inform the design of personalised exercise programs
document how exercise science principles are incorporated into the design of four client programs, and record the following details for each client: a profile of the client and how individual characteristics of age, sex, fitness levels and basic physical characteristics have been used to design the program; how the program is systematically structured to provide progression towards planned goals and adaptations; rationale for the selection of exercises that relate to the principle of specificity; how the principle of overload has been used to determine the volume and intensity of exercises and frequency of sessions; rationale for the types of recovery that are incorporated into sessions, and how sessions are sequenced to allow recovery from specific types of exercises between sessions

Knowledge evidence

credible sources of evidence-based exercise science information that draw links with fitness instruction activities relevant to personal trainers
meaning and key physiological aspects of the following exercise science principles, how the principles interrelate, and how they underpin exercise program design and instruction: adaptation, overload, specificity, individualisation, progression and regression, reversibility
how each of the exercise science principles is applied to achieve improvements in: health related components of fitness: cardiovascular endurance, muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, body composition; skill related components of fitness: power, speed, agility, coordination, balance, reaction time, proprioception
meaning of the following terms as they apply to exercise: acute physiological response, chronic physiological adaptation
key aspects of physiological responses to exercise: cardiovascular system including acute responses and chronic adaptations of the cardiovascular system to aerobic, anaerobic and strength training; respiratory system including acute responses and chronic adaptations of the respiratory system to aerobic, anaerobic and strength training; musculoskeletal system: acute musculoskeletal responses and chronic adaptations to aerobic, anaerobic and strength training, responses of bone, joints and muscle tissue to weight bearing activities; neuromuscular system: acute neuromuscular responses and chronic adaptations to aerobic, anaerobic and strength training, responses to high intensity, strength, power, speed and hypertrophy training; endocrine system: acute responses and chronic adaptations of the endocrine system to anaerobic training, acute and chronic hormonal responses to aerobic and strength training
key aspects of physiological adaptations relevant to participating in long-term and endurance training: energy system and substrate utilisation, nervous system improvements, improved thermoregulation, increased lactate threshold
key physiological adaptations that occur from both high and low impact training
role of exercise and fitness in the prevention of common exercise related injuries and day-to-day falls, and types of physiological adaptations that are related to this reduced risk
meaning of overtraining, common physiological responses, and client signs and symptoms
key aspects of physiology that relate to short and longer term recovery periods: physiological needs and responses between sets of exercises, physiological needs and responses during cool down phase of exercise sessions, physiological needs and responses between exercise sessions

Foundation skills

Reading skills to:: interpret unfamiliar and complex evidence-based information including scientific, anatomical and physiological terminology.
Numeracy skills to:: interpret numerical information of varying complexity involving times, frequency, intervals, volume and loads complete calculation and estimations of varying complexity for program design.
Learning skills to:: monitor emerging and changing information for use in own practice.

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