Exercise Programming and Prescription Fundamentals (12134.1)

Students will demonstrate a fundamental understanding of exercise prescription as it pertains to a general population. Students will demonstrate their ability to design and implement appropriate exercise sessions based on appropriate assessments of the client and established evidence-based practice. Students will be able to teach correct technique within foundation movements involved in exercise programs including resistance exercise and flexibility. Students will be taught the underpinning principles required to program for health and wellness.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Apply foundation exercises and movement skills safely using appropriate coaching frameworks;
2. Analyse how field and lab-based testing protocols inform exercise program design in a general population; and
3. Design appropriate exercise sessions to enhance physical fitness in a general population.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - use Indigenous histories and traditional ecological knowledge to develop and augment understanding of their discipline

Prerequisites

9808 Regional Anatomy and Physiology

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

9811 Exercise Programming and Prescription

Assumed knowledge

Anatomy and Physiology