Level 3 Sports Conditioning Award

The Level 3 Sports Conditioning Award is a highly practical course that includes a wide-range of physical conditioning workshops. The course includes:

Sport and athlete profiling:

• Movement and energetic analysis
• Setting and realistic and achievable goals
• Systematic approach to breaking down complex movements

Sports-specific warm up and cool down:

• Planning and teaching sports-specific warm ups
• Planning and teaching sports-specific cool-downs
• Suggested routines for teams and individuals

Motor skill training:

• Importance and function of motor skills in sports conditioning
• Neural influences of motor skill training
• Plyometric training
• SAQ training
• Reactive training

Cardiovascular conditioning:

• Planning and teaching sports-specific CV programmes
• Adapting advanced approaches for CV training to sports

Resistance training for sports:

• Planning and teaching sports-specific resistance training programmes
• Adapting advanced approaches for resistance training to sports
• Olympic lifting techniques

All of the teaching and learning materials you need to complete this course are provided as standard. These resources are specifically designed to aide and propel you through the course’s assessments, which include:

Worksheets and multiple choice assessments – Completed online before attending the practical workshop, they ensure you’re making sufficient progress.

Practical training workshop – Across two days, students will be informally assessed on their ability to perform a range of exercises, activities and drills. While the practical does not count towards the final outcome of the qualification, it is used to aide students with their professional development

Sports conditioning case study – Completed after the workshop, this will be based on a student’s choice of athlete/sport. Putting into practice all the knowledge and skills you’ve learned on the course, you’ll be able to analyse the demands of your chosen sport and use this to create a training programme.

Providing you possess a Level 2 Certificate in Fitness Instruction, you’ll be eligible to enrol on this course. This can either be in the context of gym instruction, exercise to music, circuit training or water-based exercise.

While it isn’t mandatory, you will ideally hold a Level 3 Personal Trainer qualification. If you’re interested in enrolling on the sports conditioning course, but have not yet obtained the prerequisite qualifications, our careers team will be able to assist you further.