Students learn about:

• Initial planning considerations
  • Performance and fitness needs (individual, team)
  • Schedule of events/competitions
  • Climate and season
    
    
• Planning a training year (periodisation)
  • Phases of competition (pre-season, in-season and off-season phases)
  • Subphases (macro and microcycles)
  • Peaking
  • Tapering
  • Sport-specific subphases (fitness components, skill requirements)
    
    
• Elements to be considered when designing a training session
  • Health and safety considerations
  • Providing an overview of the session to athletes (goal-specific)
  • Warm up and cool down
  • Skill instruction and practice
  • Conditioning
  • Evaluation
    
    
• Planning to avoid overtraining
  • Amount and intensity of training
  • Physiological considerations, eg lethargy, injury
  • Psychological considerations, eg loss of motivation.

Students learn to:

• Describe the specific considerations of planning for performance in events/competitions. How would this planning differ for elite athletes and recreational/amateur participants?
• Develop and justify a periodisation chart of the fitness and skill-specific requirements of a particular sport.
• Examine different methods of structuring training sessions
• Design and implement a training session for a specific event. Evaluate the session by considering questions such as:
  • Did the activities match the abilities of the group?
  • What was the reaction of the group?
  • How could the session be modified?
• Analyse overtraining by considering questions such as:
  • How much training is too much?
  • How do you identify an overtrained athlete?
  • What do you do if you identify an overtrained athlete?
  • How can overtraining be avoided?

Extract from PDHPE Stage 6 Syllabus. © 2009 Board of Studies NSW.