Health Exercise Coaching (7cr)

Objective

Students will be able to work as a personal trainer, conduct fitness tests and compile goal-oriented exercise programmes.
They will also be able to provide personal nutrition and exercise advice.

Content

Fitness testing and programming
Exercise and nutrition counselling
Working as a personal trainer

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students can work as a personal trainer using a comprehensive knowledge base. They are able to give reasons for and critically assess their work and develop the counselling process. They use the conceptual framework of their field with expertise and can work independently in customer situations.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The students are able to apply the exercise counselling processes in a customer-oriented manner. They are able to use the concepts and terminology of exercise counselling and coaching in a systematic manner. They can provide the theoretical reasoning behind their work.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The students can conduct fitness testing safely and to a high standard. They know how to work in compliance with the exercise counselling process. They can recognise the difference between everyday knowledge and research. The students are able to use fundamental professional concepts.