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Health and Movement Science · Year 12 · 45 indicative hours

Training for Improved Performance

Personalised exercise assessment and prescription, training types and methods, the principles of training, program design for individuals and groups, nutrition and recovery, biomechanics, technology, and the management of sporting injuries.

Syllabus note: Health and Movement Science 11–12 (2023), first HSC 2026. Outcomes HM-12-04 and HM-12-05, with the skills outcomes HM-12-06 to HM-12-10 applied throughout.

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Screening before you train, pre-exercise questionnaires

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Fitness testing and exercise assessment for program design

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Anaerobic training methods, intervals, HIIT, SIT, plyometrics, resistance

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Aerobic training methods, continuous, fartlek, interval, circuit

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Flexibility, strength, and skill and tactical training

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Principles of training I, progressive overload, thresholds, specificity

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Principles of training II, reversibility, variety, warm-up and cool-down

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Physiological adaptations to training

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Designing a training session I, aims, safety, warm-up and cool-down

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Designing a training session II, skill, conditioning, tactics, evaluation

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The yearly training program, periodisation, peaking and tapering

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Psychological strategies, arousal, stress and anxiety

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Strategies and tactics in individual and group sports

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Dietary and fluid requirements of athletes

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Sleep, nutrition and hydration, fatigue and injury prevention

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Supplements, micronutrients and ergogenic products

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Biomechanics for efficient, sustained movement

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Recovery strategies, physiological and psychological

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Technology in training and performance

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Sports injuries, classification and TOTAPS assessment

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Injury management, rehabilitation and return to play

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Drugs in sport, health implications, ethics and testing

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