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Professional Task: Designing and justifying Testing & Training Programmes
Rationale:
Part of the role of a Sports and Exercise Physiologist is to choose, implement and report on valid, reliable, and useful sport specific testing regimes and then use the information gained from such testing to provide detailed information to individuals and their coaches/teachers/instructors on the types of training required to address and desired performance improvements. They are also required to integrate information from other health professionals and sport & exercise science sub disciplines. This assessment item assesses student skills in this area as applied to sporting and physically demanding occupations.
Task:
This task is in TWO MAJOR Sections. The same tasks are required for both sections.
Section 1: Sport
Students must. choose a INDIVIDUAL sports event (the sport CANNOT be any form of weight or power lifting) in which Females aged 20 to 30 years will have competed in at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. This means all the work you do on the Sport in Parts 1 to 5 inclusive must relate to a Female aged 20 to 30 years preparing to compete in an individual event at this level of competition.
Event is defined as a single activity for which medals are awarded, this rules out multi-event sports such as decathlon and heptathlon.
Individual is defined as each medal (Gold, Silver, Bronze) for the event is awarded ONLY to one person unless there is a tie in time or score)
Section 2: Physically demanding occupation
Students must choose a physically demanding occupation in which Male of age 60+ years participate. The work provided for this Section must relate to a Male worker aged 65+ years of age. The definition of physically demanding occupation includes physically demanding performance occupations such as professional dance and circus arts. However, the physically demanding occupation CANNOT be POLICING, nor can it be any form of Sports participation, referee, umpire or official.
TASKS: For each of Section 1 and 2 above students are to separately compile the following:
1. A written section that details the demands of the sport/physically demanding occupation. This is riot limited to physiological/bioenergetic demands, you also need to bring in. as appropriate demands related to other sport & exercise science sub disciplines. This must include reference to literature.
2. A test you would use to assess the highest priority Aerobic Energy System related demand identified in 1 above. For the test you must include:
(a) Information covering
How the test is linked to the demands identified.
- Information about its validity and reliability.
- Information on the normal venue types for the testing for the specified population.
- Pre-exercise screening document for the specified population that collects all appropriate information needed be sure the individuals are safe to test.
- A risk assessment document for the test.
(b) Test protocols
- Equipment list
- testing procedures
- Appropriate norms/standards for the specified population (if these are not available then a brief description of how you would establish them).
- How data collected will be processed.
- A template for the reporting of test results
(c) How the results of the test can be used to inform training specifics for the specified population.
3. A basic annual plan covering only the 1 highest priority highest priority Aerobic Energy System related demand,
4. One highly detailed Interval Training session plan, for the highest priority, Aerobic Energy System related demand identified in 1 above. This must be specific to the sport„loccupation and the individuals age category:
- You must specify the normal venue types for the training sessions.
- The plans must contain risk assessment documentation.
- The plan must contain sufficient detail such that any other trainer picking up your plan will not have to ask any questions and
If you do not provide this level of detail, you will lose marks.
- Your goal is to ensure a training effect however with a low likelihood of significant DOMS and overtraining
- The plan must include:
- How you are going to judge readiness next Interval
- How you are going to monitor intensity of each work interval of the session and the circumstances under which the session plan will be changed or ceased as a result of monitoring data.
Students are required to make choices on formatting and style of presentation of information in each section to effectively and efficiently communicate the information required to the depth and detail appropriate for the section.