Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assess participant ability to meet the demands of high level performance.
- Identify requirements of high level performance for participant physical activity.
- Use approved assessment methods appropriate to demands of participation in the physical activity to assess participant fitness and skill levels.
- Measure, record and evaluate data obtained from assessment activities against current identified demands of participation.
- Establish high performance participant aims and priorities for the training program.
- Establish agreed program needs and objectives.
- Plan a training programto meet participant requirements.
- Investigate current national and international trends and innovations in high performance training program design.
- Implement principles of high performance training program design to meet identified needs of participant and high performance objectives of the physical activity.
- Consider competition requirements and align competition opportunities within training program.
- Incorporate cross-training opportunities where appropriate to meet program objectives.
- Incorporate principles of recovery into training program design.
- Identify and select equipment and resource requirements for each stage of the program.
- Include evaluation methods to monitor training program.
- Schedule and document training program according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Implement the training program.
- Monitor and adjust the training program.
- Monitor and modify participant progress in consultation with support staff.
- Identify errors, potential problems and areas for improvement in performance and communicate these to participant.
- Monitor skill performance, physical performance and participant wellbeing throughout training program and adapt methods and instructional styles to maximise outcomes.
- Adjust sessions and training program according to results of monitoring.
- Provide feedback to participants to improve performance.
- Evaluate training program according to methods outlined in plan and in consultation with participant and support staff.
- Identify symptoms of negative adaptation and refer participants with symptoms of negative adaptation to relevant support staff.
- Manage competitive and performance events during the program.