XNB280 Exercise Conditioning

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Overview

The prescription and programming of exercise are essential competencies of any exercise and sport scientists. This unit focuses on exercise programming and delivery to improve aerobic and anaerobic capacity in general populations through to athletic populations, and complements the resistance training unit which focuses on improving strength.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Describe the physiological basis for aerobic and anaerobic exercise performance;
2. Explain the acute responses to and chronic adaptations to aerobic and anaerobic conditioning;
3. Plan, instruct and supervise well designed conditioning programs for a variety of performance and health goals that demonstrates sound knowledge of evidence-based exercise programming principles for improving performance;
4. Recognise the limitations of the evidence base for the prescription of aerobic and anaerobic exercise and be able to independently source current peer-reviewed scientific evidence that relates to the prescription of exercise conditioning.

Content

Learning Approaches

This unit will involve a combination of online lectures and practicals. The lectures will cover evidence for the efficacy and appropriateness of different types of exercise programs and their constituent activities, as well as the principles which govern program design.

Practical classes will involve integration of theory and practice including participation in activities to develop practical skills that promote understanding of the demands of exercise and real-world issues for their implementation in an exercise program. These scenarios will present a range of fitness conditions, different exercise modes and training modalities. Practicals will also incorporate the delivery of exercise conditioning sessions, focusing on exercise instructional skills. Knowledge and skills will be further applied during Work Integrated Learning experiences where you will be required to deliver a conditioning program to a general population.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Assessment will be spaced throughout the semester to provide the opportunity for feedback on your learning to that point. Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:

• You will be provided with verbal and/or written feedback on each piece of formative and summative assessment during the semester
• criteria sheet grading
• comments on summative assessment work in addition to criteria sheets
• generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas
  
  You are encouraged to communicate with the unit coordinator if you have any questions or concerns about the assessment items.

Assessment

Overview

Each assessment item is designed to measure your knowledge and mastery of professional skills stated in the learning outcomes.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Demonstration (Practical)

This assessment will require you to demonstrate the skills and competencies learnt in the practicals to plan and deliver a group exercise session based on fitness or sports performance goals. The delivery is to be filmed and edited to produce a digital presentation. Each member of the group must deliver aspects of the exercise session delivery.  This is an authentic assessment because students will most have to work in the future instructing group exercise.

Assessment: Mid-Semester Examination

A theory examination of course material delivered prior to this date, including the design of an exercise program that meets the needs and capacity of a client, based on current, best practice guidelines.

Assessment: PersonalTraining Client Report

You will be required to personally train a client twice a week for a 4 week period and perform an initial and final assessment. You will be required to write a report on various aspects of the process. This report will require you to collate, critically evaluate and transfer into practice a wide range of research to ensure the programs that are provided to your clients are evidence-based.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.

Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Resources

Resource Materials

Prescribed text(s)

American College of Sports Medicine. (2014). ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (9th ed.). Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

ESSA’s Student Manual for Health, Exercise and Sport Assessment
1st Edition
Authors: Jeff Coombes Tina Skinner

Recommended text(s)

Joyce, D., & Lewindon, D. (2014). High Performance Training for Sports. Human Kinetics. USA.

Risk Assessment Statement

You are required to read the Health and Safety Rules for School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Laboratories and Clinics prior to undertaking any of the practicals for this unit. These Health and Safety Rules are provided in electronic form on the online teaching site for this unit and are prominently displayed in hardcopy within the laboratory/clinic. The tutorial components of this unit are practical and involve strenuous physical activity that may present some possible risk of injury or complication. You will be required to complete a pre-participation medical screening questionnaire.