NZQA registered unit standard
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Title
Prescribe an advanced physical activity programme to meet specific
performance goals
Level
6
Credits
8
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: interpret the
results of field tests of performance; and plan, implement, and
evaluate an advanced training programme to meet specific
performance goals.
Classification
Fitness > Exercise Prescription
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
Assessment of this unit standard must require the learner to apply the Health and Safety in
Employment Act 1992, Privacy Act 1993, Consumers Guarantees Act 1993, and their
subsequent amendments, and American College of Sports Medicine risk categories where
available.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Interpret the results of field assessments of performance.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Analysis of field assessments determines the adequacy of activity specific
information provided by the field tests in the context of the assessment of the
fitness components used in the physical activity.
Range
1.2
fitness components – aerobic power, aerobic capacity, anaerobic
power, anaerobic capacity, strength, muscular endurance, speed,
agility, coordination, body composition, flexibility.
Description establishes norms and ranges of fitness components required for
good performance in specified physical activities.
Range
fitness components – aerobic power, aerobic capacity, anaerobic
power, anaerobic capacity, strength, muscular endurance, speed,
agility, coordination, body composition, flexibility.
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Outcome 2
Plan, implement, and evaluate an advanced training programme to meet specific
performance goals.
Evidence requirements
2.1
The importance of fitness components used in performance of the physical
activity are explained.
Range
2.2
Data are gathered from the individual for the purpose of screening and
individualising the programme.
Range
2.3
age, training history, injuries, health record, time available,
equipment and facilities available, commitments outside sport,
culture, career goals, cost.
Goals for the training programme are established in conjunction with the
individual, and consultation establishes the individual's motivation to achieve
the goals.
Range
2.4
proportion of time the fitness component is used in the physical
activity, ability to perform optimally without the fitness component.
motivation – social, competition, career, self-development,
personal interest, external pressure.
The planned training programme applies the principles of training.
Range
specificity, progressive overload, rest and recovery, reversibility,
frequency, intensity, duration, periodisation, individuality,
maintenance.
2.5
The planned training programme prepares the fitness components identified in
the analysis and results of the individual’s field tests as necessary for the
athlete to participate in a specific physical activity.
2.6
Methods of monitoring an athlete's responses to training are identified and
critiqued.
Range
2.7
types of tests – field assessments, lab assessments, subjective,
objective;
critique – accuracy, reliability, validity, specificity, practicality,
normative, baseline, costs, professional support needed,
availability of test, reproducibility.
The programme is implemented and goals monitored according to results of the
critique.
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2.8
Changes are made to the programme and/or goals according to the results of
monitoring and unexpected circumstances.
Range
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injury, illness, circumstances of the individual.
The programme is evaluated according to its ability to achieve the goals set,
and future modifications to the programme to enhance its effectiveness are
explained.
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
17 May 1996
31 December 2012
Revision
2
19 February 1998
31 December 2012
Review
3
30 August 1999
31 December 2012
Rollover and
Revision
4
16 April 2010
31 December 2012
Rollover and
Revision
5
20 May 2011
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0099
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, or
an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can
report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading
to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMRs). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
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Comments on this unit standard
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suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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