L3 Gym & PT Practical workshops – February 2024

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HOMEWORK – AFTER DAY 1:

  • Find a client – An individual who you can make a real difference with in regards to their training, nutrition and mindset.
  • Book in a consultation with your client.

  • Consultation is to be recorded – see filming guidelines in your Candidate Induction Manual. Recording is to be added into your ‘Uploads’ folder when done (renamed as ‘Client Consultation’).
  • Complete Lifestyle Questionnaire, ParQ and Informed Consent forms in your Learner Assessment Record.
  • Perform two health screening tests: Blood Pressure, BMI or Waist to Hip Ratio.

  • After filmed consultation, complete Task 1 – Client Consultation in your Learner Assessment Record. Use the documents in your ‘Learner Assessment Records’ folder in your Student Portfolio to help you:
    • How to complete your Learner Assessment Record
    • Learner Assessment Record – Completion Examples

To help with the health screening tests, use pages 129 – 131 in your PTA Practical Manual.

Note: When this first task is completed, don’t ask for marking just yet. We will mark your Task 1 Client Consultation at the same time as your ‘Task 2 – Programming’ and ‘Task 3 – Knowledge Questions’ documents.

HOMEWORK – AFTER DAY 2:

  • Ensure you have completed your Client Consultation
  • After you have performed your Client Consultation and completed your ‘Task 1 – Client Consultation’ document in your Level 2 Learner Assessment Record, you will need to design your Clients Gym Programme.
  • Along with your clients Gym Programme, you will also need to design a programme for a ‘Younger Person’ and an ‘Older Individual’. This is purely to show your knowledge in programming. Ensure you have first watched the relevant lessons in the Practical Module > Gym-based programme ‘Planning and Preparation’… unit (‘Exercise programming for Elderly Clients’ and ‘Exercise programming for young adults’).
  • After you have designed your clients gym programme, take them through this programme in full to complete it, allowing you to add all resistances and intensities. Refer to your manual and the ‘Exercise & Coaching Library’ to help you understand the teaching points, positioning, muscles used etc for each exercise.
  • You will also need to complete your Task 4 – Knowledge Questions document. Use the ‘Level 2 LAR – Knowledge Questions’ document in your Student Portfolio > Learner Assessment Records folder to help complete.
  • When you have Task 1, Task 2 and Task 4 fully completed, please submit for assessing.

When you have all of the above complete, you can prepare for and perform your Level 2 Summative Assessment:

HOMEWORK – AFTER DAY 3:

  • Ensure your Level 2 Learner Assessment Record is complete.
  • Ask your case study client to start keeping a 7-day detailed food diary.
  • Start Task 1 – Consultation document in your Level 3 Learner Assessment Record (copy and paste clients details, profile etc from Level 2 LAR Task 1 – Consultation document.
  • Start Task 2 – Programming document in your Level 3 Learner Assessment Record – complete 12 week overview and 1st 1:1 Personal Training session. If you deliver this session to your client, ensure that you get feedback from your client and you evaluate this session.
  • Watch the lessons in your Practical Module in the Bespoke Exercise Programming unit – up to ‘How to Progress a Cool Down’.

HOMEWORK – AFTER DAY 4:

Recap of all home to date:

  • Ensure your Level 2 Learner Assessment Record is complete.
  • Ask your case study client to start keeping a 7-day detailed food diary.
  • Start Task 1 – Consultation document in your Level 3 Learner Assessment Record (copy and paste clients details, profile etc from Level 2 LAR Task 1 – Consultation document.
  • Start Task 2 – Programming document in your Level 3 Learner Assessment Record – complete 12 week overview and 1st 1:1 Personal Training session. If you deliver this session to your client, ensure that you get feedback from your client and you evaluate this session.

If you have completed all of the above, homework for this week is to do the following:

  • Continue watching the lessons in your Practical Module in the Bespoke Exercise Programming unit – up to ‘The fats and CHO ration for energy expenditure’.
  • Design, and deliver, your 2nd Personal Training session to your client – evaluate when finished.
  • If you have your Clients 7 day food diary, and you have completed the Nutrition unit,  you can start Task 4 – Nutrition Consultation’ – Refer to the ‘Completion examples’ document to help you with this.

EXAMPLE LEVEL 3 PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT:

Here is an example of a Level 3 Summative Practical Assessment.

This was an actual Level 3 Personal Training assessment (but was delivered in front of a group of students for their own professional development).

Somethings to watch out for that you can bring in to your own practical delivery:

  • Communication – Loud, clear and informative.
  • Positioning
  • Explanation of exercise choice and set methods.
  • Encouragement feedback.

This has been done to show you the sort of performance that we will be looking for in your final practical assessment.

HOMEWORK – DAY 5

Now is the time to start bring everything together and to get your final observed practical delivery completed.

Make sure the following is done if you haven’t already (If you can get this done over the next few days it would be greatly appreciated and will speed up your certification process):

LEVEL 2 LEARNER ASSESSMENT RECORD:

  • Ensure your Level 2 Learner Assessment Records are fully completed (Task 1, 2 and 4).
  • Upload your Level 2 Practical Assessment Paperwork (pages 155 – 165 in your Practical Manual).

LEVEL 3 LEARNER ASSESSMENT RECORD:

  • Complete Task 1 – Consultation Document. Baseline measure tests and Postural Analysis for your client.
  • Complete Task 2 – Programming, Delivery and Review
  • Upload your learner logs (pages 171-173, 177-178 and 181). Make sure your name, assessor name (Pete Howard) and dates (09/03/24) are added. Wherever you see ‘Outcome’ can you write ‘Pass’ and next to ‘Final Result’ write ‘Pass’ (if Pete hasn’t already).
  • Design a 4th Personal Training session that you will use for your Level 3 Practical Delivery.

The following videos give both and overview to this required work, and importantly gives a detailed explanation of what you will need to do to pass your Level 3 Practical Assessment.

As always let us know if you have any questions, and if you can send us a quick email when you have completed the above work that will be great.