Kickstart Your Endurance Training

Kickstart Your Endurance Training
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Overview

Learn how to create a plan, set your goals, and measure your fitness to kickstart your training in a safe and healthy way.

Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate

Skills you will learn

More about this course

On this first of three online courses from Federation University Australia, learner will gain the background information and basic training learner need to safely and successfully kickstart endurance training programme
Learner will create a fitness plan, learn to monitor performance, and identify the training method that best suits
Periodisation training involves adjusting variables during workouts to set body new challenges and take fitness further
It can help learner track and optimise performance, while preventing overtraining
In Week 1 of the course, learner will master the basics of goal-setting and periodisation to help learner plan a roadmap for endurance training
Grasping the basics of anatomy and physiology will make it easier for learner to achieve your fitness goals without putting body at risk
In the second week of the course, learner will explore how the human body functions and responds to stimuli during training
Learner will gain a comprehensive introduction to physiological determinants of endurance performance and human endurance systems
Once learner have mastered the fundamentals of training, learner can begin defining learner's own training style
Learner will review a wide range of endurance training methods, weighing up their advantages and disadvantages in relation to needs and goals
By the end of the course, learner will be fully prepared to kickstart endurance training