Kickstart Your Endurance Training
Learn how to create a plan, set your goals, and measure your fitness to kickstart your training in a safe and healthy way, with this online course from Federation University Australia.
Duration
3 weeks
Weekly study
2 hours
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How it works
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Established
1870
Location
Ballarat, Berwick, Gippsland, Wimmera
Create a fitness plan with Federation University Australia
If you’re thinking about training for an endurance event, it’s important you do your research well in advance.
On this first of three online courses from Federation University Australia, you’ll gain the background information and basic training you need to safely and successfully kickstart your endurance training programme. You’ll create a fitness plan, learn to monitor your performance, and identify the training method that best suits you.
Master the principles of training and periodisation
Periodisation training involves adjusting variables during workouts to set your body new challenges and take your fitness further. It can help you track and optimise your performance, while preventing overtraining.
In Week 1 of the course, you’ll master the basics of goal-setting and periodisation to help you plan a roadmap for your endurance training.
Gain an introduction to anatomy and physiology for fitness
Grasping the basics of anatomy and physiology will make it easier for you to achieve your fitness goals without putting your body at risk.
In the second week of the course, you’ll explore how the human body functions and responds to stimuli during training. You’ll gain a comprehensive introduction to physiological determinants of endurance performance and human endurance systems.
Find the training method that works for you
Once you’ve mastered the fundamentals of training, you can begin defining your own training style. You’ll review a wide range of endurance training methods, weighing up their advantages and disadvantages in relation to your needs and goals.
By the end of the course, you’ll be fully prepared to kickstart your endurance training.
Week 1
Principles of training and periodisation
Introduction to endurance training
Over the next few steps, you will be looking at an overview of the course and reflecting on your understanding of fitness. We will also look at goal setting and the importance of utilising them to help in motivation and evaluation
Goal setting and the principles of training
In this activity, we outline the importance of using goals to help motivate and evaluate athletes' fitness progression. Likewise, we identify the importance of allowing for recovery in a training program.
Bringing it all together
Using what we've learnt so far, we compile the techniques and skillsets into the foundation of a training program that learners will use for themselves and those they coach.
Week 2
Physiological determinants of endurance performance
The human body - how does it work?
In week 2 of 'Kick-start your endurance training', we look at how the human body is designed and what limitations apply. Understanding the human body will allow you to tailor training to maximise results.
Understanding the human body and systems
Explore anatomy and physiology and the impact of training on these systems. Through understanding these key components, more ideal results can be achieved while minimising the risk of injuries being sustained.
Bringing it all together
We look at using what we've learnt about human physiology and anatomy to better understand how a training plan could be designed for individual athletes.
Week 3
Endurance training methods
Introduction to endurance training methods
For this week, we look at the different types of training and methods available to endurance athletes and coaches. Each type and method of training will help in promoting a specific adaptation in the human body and systems.
Endurance training methods; which one is best for you?
We analyse the different types of training and their benefits, and downsides, and identify where they are most applicable for endurance athletes.
Crossing the finish line
For this activity, we bring together everything we've learnt over the past three weeks and review how far we've travelled in our endurance journey.
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