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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify group personal training program requirements.
   • Consider and confirm compatibility of client needs, expectations and preferences using suitable questioning techniques.
   • Review and advise clients of outcomes of pre-exercise screening procedures and fitness appraisals.
   • Refer clients to medical or allied health professionals as required.
   • Establish exercise intensities appropriate for each client within the group.
   • Identify potential barriers to achieving needs and goals of individuals within the group.
   • Develop and document client profiles for re-evaluation purposes.
2. Develop group personal training exercise plan and program.
   • Determine type of training, training methods and equipment required to achieve client goals.
   • Develop client personalised strategies to maximise group coherence and increase exercise adherence.
   • Develop and document program plans that incorporate key instructional information appropriate to group training and match client preferences.
   • Develop customised training sessions that include a variety of exercises and equipment to meet client needs.
   • Select appropriate session assessment techniques.
   • Obtain permission for use of public spaces if required.
   • Document group personal training plans.
3. Conduct group personal training sessions
   • Allocate sufficient space, assemble resources and check equipment for safety and maintenance requirements.
   • Determine client prior knowledge and skills in the fitness activity.
   • Provide clear exercise instructions to the group and confirm individual client understanding.
   • Demonstrate exercises, techniques and equipment to the group, providing individual assistance if required.
   • Relate location and function of major bones and major joints to movement when instructing the group.
   • Identify major muscles acting at major joints when instructing the group.
   • Manage the use of different equipment by different clients within the same session, in a timely and safe manner.
   • Supervise clients performing a variety of exercises or variations in exercises, at the same time.
   • Monitor participation and performance and modify as required.
   • Select and use motivational techniques for group personal training to increase performance and adherence to exercise.
   • Respond to clients experiencing difficulties and answer questions as required.
   • Complete session documentation and progress notes.
4. Evaluate personal training program.
   • Monitor and evaluate exercise program at appropriate intervals.
   • Request and respond to feedback from clients.
   • Perform follow up fitness assessments on each client, individually or as a group, as required.
   • Review own performance and identify areas needing improvement.
   • Identify aspects needing further emphasis or attention in future sessions.
   • Evaluate program or activities and discuss modifications to program.
   • Modify personal training plan for individual clients, or group, as required and prepare new exercise program.
   • Document and update records of evaluation and modification of program.
5. Identify group personal training program requirements.
   • Consider and confirm compatibility of client needs, expectations and preferences using suitable questioning techniques.
   • Review and advise clients of outcomes of pre-exercise screening procedures and fitness appraisals.
   • Refer clients to medical or allied health professionals as required.
   • Establish exercise intensities appropriate for each client within the group.
   • Identify potential barriers to achieving needs and goals of individuals within the group.
   • Develop and document client profiles for re-evaluation purposes.
6. Develop group personal training exercise plan and program.
   • Determine type of training, training methods and equipment required to achieve client goals.
   • Develop client personalised strategies to maximise group coherence and increase exercise adherence.
   • Develop and document program plans that incorporate key instructional information appropriate to group training and match client preferences.
   • Develop customised training sessions that include a variety of exercises and equipment to meet client needs.
   • Select appropriate session assessment techniques.
   • Obtain permission for use of public spaces if required.
   • Document group personal training plans.
7. Conduct group personal training sessions
   • Allocate sufficient space, assemble resources and check equipment for safety and maintenance requirements.
   • Determine client prior knowledge and skills in the fitness activity.
   • Provide clear exercise instructions to the group and confirm individual client understanding.
   • Demonstrate exercises, techniques and equipment to the group, providing individual assistance if required.
   • Relate location and function of major bones and major joints to movement when instructing the group.
   • Identify major muscles acting at major joints when instructing the group.
   • Manage the use of different equipment by different clients within the same session, in a timely and safe manner.
   • Supervise clients performing a variety of exercises or variations in exercises, at the same time.
   • Monitor participation and performance and modify as required.
   • Select and use motivational techniques for group personal training to increase performance and adherence to exercise.
   • Respond to clients experiencing difficulties and answer questions as required.
   • Complete session documentation and progress notes.
8. Evaluate personal training program.
   • Monitor and evaluate exercise program at appropriate intervals.
   • Request and respond to feedback from clients.
   • Perform follow up fitness assessments on each client, individually or as a group, as required.
   • Review own performance and identify areas needing improvement.
   • Identify aspects needing further emphasis or attention in future sessions.
   • Evaluate program or activities and discuss modifications to program.
   • Modify personal training plan for individual clients, or group, as required and prepare new exercise program.
   • Document and update records of evaluation and modification of program.

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit in the context of the job role. This must include period(s) totalling at least ten hours comprising at least ten different client contact sessions in a mixture of controlled and uncontrolled environments, and:

plan, document, implement and evaluate at least three group personal training plans and exercise programs for groups of three to twelve people that meet specific needs and goals of each individual within the group

conduct sessions that individually or cumulatively incorporate:

a variety of indoor and outdoor training environments, methods, and equipment:

ensures promotion of sustainability of the environment

choice of resources to minimise environmental impact

permission for use of public spaces, as required

flexibility training:

dynamic

static

proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation

resistance training:

free weights

gym equipment

body weight resistance only

cardiovascular training techniques:

continuous

interval

adequate spacing between clients

appropriate line of sight for clients

appropriate motivating instructional techniques to increase exercise adherence and positive health and fitness habits of the group:

goal setting

intrinsic an extrinsic motivation

establishment of habits

positive reinforcement

modify personal training plans for clients, addressing at least three of the following:

technical requirements

changing needs due to fitness adaptations

changing goals

client needs, objectives, likes and dislikes

technical difficulty adjustments of exercises.

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Knowledge Evidence

Demonstrated knowledge required to complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit:

legislative and regulatory requirements regarding group personal training, equipment use and selection:

work health and safety/occupational health and safety

duty of care

privacy

anti-discrimination

working with children and/or vulnerable people check

organisational policies and procedures in regards to:

ventilation and/or climate control

hygiene

emergency

risk management

standards of personal presentation

participant clothing and footwear

use, care and maintenance of equipment

client supervision

communication protocols

records management and security

maximum number of clients within a group

client supervision in a group

industry endorsed client pre-exercise screening processes

industry endorsed risk stratification procedures, exercise implications and referral requirements

program planning for improvement of health- and skill-related components of fitness:

body composition

muscle endurance

muscle strength

flexibility

cardiovascular endurance

balance

reaction time

coordination

power

speed

agility

proprioception

safety and preparation considerations for the use of plyometric training in group personal training

suitable training and monitoring techniques and exercises to achieve improved functioning of:

musculoskeletal system

cardiovascular system

nervous system

training principles relevant to the health- and skill-related components of fitness in the client’s program:

overload

progression

adaptation

specificity

individualisation

maintenance

training methods and consideration of intensity, program types, sets and reps, circuits, matrices, super-sets, pre-fatigue and interval training

types of conditioning and training, and expected adaptations, including timing, for:

speed

power

strength

flexibility

cardiovascular endurance

hypertrophy

muscle endurance

weight loss

agility

reaction time

balance

coordination

client considerations and needs:

client details

fitness levels and goals

training history

targeted adaptations

anticipated rate of client adaptation

number and nature of session programs

equipment requirements

facility requirements

review dates

application of exercise science, anatomy, physiology, biomechanics considerations to fitness activities and group personal training programs:

aerobic endurance and responses

hypertrophy training and types of muscle fibres

muscle tension

local muscle endurance training and recovery

neuromuscular coordination training, safety, skill and recovery

strength training, recovery times and techniques

stretching and flexibility methods, techniques and recovery times

predicted rate of adaptation

progression

recovery rate

reversibility

specificity

training threshold

manufacturer and exercise equipment specifications for safe use and techniques

signs and symptoms of exercise intolerance and appropriate management strategies

common barriers to exercise participation:

perceived versus actual barriers

initial low fitness level

time and access to facilities

self-consciousness in client

different learning styles of clients and methods to adapt training to suit these learning styles

motivational techniques:

goal setting

intrinsic an extrinsic motivation

establishment of habits

positive reinforcement.

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