Fitness

• Identify players’ general fitness requirements, provide a basic screening form to players, and advise players on fitness facilities and services
• Provide the basic applied exercise science required for fitness instructors
• Maintain equipment commonly used in the fitness industry, and operate it to manufacturer’s specifications
• Instruct and supervise individual player in fitness using basic fitness industry equipment
• Provide leadership to groups of players within a fitness or sport and recreation context.
• Use, maintain and demonstrate the use of a broad range of fitness equipment
• Analyse players behaviours and recommend strategies for exercise adherence
• Make referrals and work collaboratively with allied health professionals in regards to a range of internal/external players in a fitness specialist setting
• Receive and respond to rehabilitation referrals from allied health professionals
• Undertake more extensive postural appraisals of moderate risk players in order to plan and deliver corrective exercise programs for players under the guidance of allied health professionals
• Provide nutritional information to players with specific nutritional requirements, under the guidance and supervision of medical and allied health professionals
• Apply in–depth knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the major systems of the human body to the planning and delivery of fitness programs for moderate risk players, it also deals with the physiological processes maintaining homeostasis of each body system, and examines how these processes are undermined by disease and disorders
• Provide body composition management programming for players
• Provide advice to fitness players about exercise related injuries, their prevention and management under the guidance of allied health professionals
• Plan and deliver exercise programs for low and moderate risk individuals, focus on the role of exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle and in preventing major diseases in adults
• Plan and deliver exercise for moderate risk client groups of children and young adolescents
• Develop a consultative network for the application of fitness assessment protocols to a potential client group, identification and application of the need to refer, and review exercise programs for children and young adolescents in conjunction with an allied health professionals
• Plan and deliver exercise for people with a disabilities in conjunction with an allied health professional
• Plan and deliver exercise strategies that will enhance musculoskeletal rehabilitation in conjunction with an allied health professional
• Plan and deliver exercise for moderate risk players with cardio–respiratory needs
• Plan and deliver exercise programs for players moderate risk of metabolic disease, primarily metabolic syndrome (impaired glucose tolerance, hypertension, obesity, dyslipidaemia) in conjunction with an allied health professional
• Plan and deliver exercise for moderate risk players with musculoskeletal needs
• Plan and deliver exercise programs to players with neurological impairments who present with no more than moderate risk of untoward event or exacerbation of impairment during exercise.

• Diploma
• Certificate IV
• Certificate III
• Short Courses
• Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
• Continuing Professional Development