EIT Trades Academy Exercise Level 3
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Earners of the EIT Trades Academy Sport Exercise NCEA Level 3 badge have experienced working in the field of health and exercise through Tairāwhiti School’s Trades Academy at EIT (Eastern Institute of Technology). Learners have developed skills to manage and improve their own fitness, have gained an understanding and confidence regarding exercise testing, can effectively plan exercise programmes to improve personal fitness, and have greater knowledge around how the body works.
- Type Validation
- Level Foundational
- Time Months
- Cost Free
Earning Criteria
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In this course the learner gained skills in: Managing and improving your own fitness; Understand and implement exercise testing protocols; Planning exercise programmes using gym equipment to improve personal fitness; How the body works related to sports skills
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Learners have been assessed and passed a range of items including: Develop and implement an exercise plan for personal physical fitness; Demonstrate knowledge of the purpose and protocols of exercise testing; Demonstrate knowledge of the human body and its movement during exercise and stretching.; Demonstrate exercise and stretching technique; Demonstrate knowledge of micro and macro nutrients and nutritional imbalances
Standards
People credited with this unit standard are able to: develop a personal exercise plan; and, implement the personal exercise plan and measure progress in relation to goals.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: demonstrate knowledge of the purpose of exercise testing; demonstrate knowledge of consistency for exercise testing; and, describe the protocols of specific exercise tests.
People credited with this standard are able to demonstrate knowledge of: the human body and its movement; and stretches that target major muscles and muscle groups.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: demonstrate standard resistance exercises which target specific muscles and muscle groups; demonstrate exercises which target cardiovascular fitness; and stretches which target specific muscles and muscle groups.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify and explain nutritional recommendations for health regarding the intake of macro and micro nutrients and common food sources of these nutrients; and explain the cause and effect of nutritional imbalances