Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan fitness regime
- In consultation with relevant personnel, plan a fitness regime that includes basic training techniques for improving strength, flexibility and stamina
- Ensure that fitness regime takes account of the relationship between exercise and energy needs
- Plan and cost an affordable and balanced diet that meets a dancer’s needs
- Incorporate into fitness regime strategies to address psychological and physical issues associated with body maintenance
- Match components of fitness regime to level of fitness required for specific dance performances or dance styles
- Identify the correct level of training to avoid over or under training
- In consultation with relevant personnel, establish a process for reviewing and adjusting fitness regime
- Undertake body conditioning for dance
- Practise movements and exercises to align body and improve dynamic stability
- Practise controlling balance through a variety of exercises with eyes shut and open
- Engage and strengthen core stabiliser muscles
- Execute coordinated movements with balance
- Review and adjust body conditioning exercises in line with agreed process
- Execute a series of limber exercises
- Maintain expertise in fitness regime