Overview

This unit covers the prescription, delivery, adaptation, and evaluation of safe and effective evidence-based movement, physical activity, exercise, and strength and conditioning interventions to optimise health status, function, recovery, independence, and participation across the full health spectrum.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Study Block 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
12-April-2027
27-June-2027
Last self-enrolment date
12-April-2027
Census date
04-May-2027
Last withdraw without fail date
25-May-2027
Results released date
29-June-2027

Unit learning outcomes

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

  1. Apply advanced knowledge of exercise physiology, motor control and strength and conditioning principles to the assessment, management and prevention of sport and exercise related conditions
  2. Design, implement and review conditioning, training programs to improve athletic performance
  3. Select and use appropriate modes of communication to transmit evidence-based knowledge to specialist and non-specialist audiences to inform, motivate and effect change at the individual, and community level.
  4. Apply advanced knowledge of exercise physiology, motor control and exercise prescription to analyse and develop exercise-based solutions for clients across diverse population groups, including age-related, cultural, gender-diverse and in various extreme environmental contexts such as thermal, stress and variable training conditions.
  5. Critically review and apply best practice in health promotion with a focus on physical activity and exercise behaviours across all individuals and population groups

Teaching methods

All applicable locations

Activity Type Activity Total Hours Number of Weeks Hours Per Week
Online Lecture 20 10 weeks 2
Live Online Workshop 20 10 weeks 2
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning 40 11 weeks 3.64
On-campus Practical 35 1 week 35
Unspecified Activities Assessment Preparation 35 11 weeks 3.18
Total Hours: 150 Total Hours (per week): 45.82

Assessment

All applicable locations

Type Task Weighting ULOs
Assignment Group  30% 1,2,5
Practical and Oral Examination Individual  40% 1,2,4
Final-Semester Test Individual  30% 3,4,5

Content

The teaching material in this unit covers the following topics

  • Strength and Conditioning principles
  • Physical activity guidelines
  • Exercise prescription in rehabilitation 
  • Exercise in extreme environments
  • Exercise in special populations

The unit covers the following graduate attributes

  • Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication
  • Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
  • Graduate Attribute – Collaboration and negotiation
  • Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Collaboration and negotiation
  • Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Information literacy
  • Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Technical literacy

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.