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EXSS3040: Assessment of High-Performance Athletes
2025 unit information
This subject deals with the physiology and psychology of training and testing in sports and provides students with both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. Special attention will be given to different sport types and their specific demands. Fundamental questions concerning the nature of the training stimulus, determinants of success in sports, physiological testing batteries, training thresholds, and important aspects of testing and training such as the critical power model of intensity and force-velocity relationships will be investigated. Current methods used to evaluate the different physiological characteristics involved in sport performance will be studied: aerobic power and capacity, anaerobic power and capacity, muscular strength and maximal power output. Concurrently, psychological impacts of sport performance/assessment will be examined and practically applied. Learning activities include the use of didactic lecture content from the unit coordinators and guest lecturers and practical classes aimed at gathering experience with physiological and psychological assessments in the applied sport science setting. Upon the completion of the unit, students should be able to provide consultancy within a sub-elite sport science setting.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Movement Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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EXSS2032 or EXSS2034 or EXSS1040 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Understand the physiological and psychological basis of testing and training specific domains of athletic performance
- LO2. Analyse how the body adapts to a training stimulus
- LO3. Develop appropriate testing and training protocols, based on accurate needs analyses, to assess and improve the performance of athletic individuals
- LO4. Evaluate the impact of environmental conditions on the body’s ability to perform exercise.
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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