1. Year 9 Improving Sports Performance

2. Course Description
Year 9 Improving Sports Performance is aimed at students who are passionate about Sport. The unit will improve your understanding of:
The fitness required to play different sports and how to test your own personal level of fitness
How to design a basic training program to improve your skills and fitness in your chosen sport.
Eating and Drinking to win – what, when, how much should you eat and drink when training and playing sport.
Prevention, treatment and recovery from common sports injuries.

3. Why Study this? Work Tasks Assessment tasks
Skill and Movement analysis of various sports
Fitness Testing
Training Programs
Active participation in practical classes
Workbook
Design, participate in and review a training session

4. Subject pathway….
Year 9 Improving Sporting Performance can lead to:
Yr 10 Physical Education (Human Movement)
VCE Units in Physical Education
Increasing student knowledge of careers that that have a Health, Physical Education, Sport and Fitness Industry focus

5. No extra activities or costs
All lessons are completed at Nagle as part of the students normal timetabled classes.

6. More information….
Staff contacts
Mr Nigel Carr