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Hi, and welcome to this practical assessment. Explaining, for the level two gym instructing qualification, what I plan to do is run through an explanation of the continuous and summative assessments so that you know what’s expected of you, and then what you need to do to get them recorded, either at home or whether you’re attending a face-to-face session with us here in London.
Now, Matt, in the past, has also done an explainer into how to complete your program card, going, you know, to build up a program in great detail. Now, this is not what that is, so I will leave a link to that in the comments below this video. This is basically an explainer so you understand the difference between continuous and summative and the type of things that we look out for and what you need to be aware of when you’re doing your assessments. So let’s get straight into this presentation.
So, when it comes to the level two practical assessments, there are two types of assessment. Now, the best way to think about this is that it’s similar to doing a gym induction. All right, so you’re going to have a client, and you’re better to assume that your client has never even been in a gym before; you know, they don’t know how to do certain exercises, they’ve never used any machinery, any gym equipment. So, better to assume that they have not done anything in a gym before. It’s so you are inducting them into the gym. You’re going to take them around a few exercises; you’re going to show them how to use that equipment by doing demos, explaining what the equipment is. I mean, we’ll cover this later in this explainer, um, but yeah, similar to a gym induction.
Now, as you can see here, there are two types of assessment: we’ve got the continuous assessment, which is the first assessment, and then the summative assessment. Now, the best way I can explain this is the continuous is almost like a “try before you buy.” This is an opportunity for you guys to attempt to do your assessments on an individual basis before you actually do the final assessment, which is the summative assessment. So, as you can see here, the summative assessment is basically 10 activities, and ideally, we’re going to be recording that in one go. Now, things have, as things have changed slightly due to Covid, and I’ll cover that a little bit later, but ideally, the summative assessment is going to be one long recording, between 45 and an hour long—45 minutes to an hour long—one long recording where you’re completing that assessment. The continuous assessment is almost um six individual exercises, so six individual recordings, if you like, that are going to get you ready, get you to a level of the summative assessment.
So, when it comes to the continuous, you’re going to be covering six individual exercises. Again, we’ll go through that a little bit later. You will have chosen these as part of your program card, and you’re going to record them. And what that means is your tutor can then look at your current level, or your starting level, if you like, when it comes to instructing exercises, and it’s a great opportunity for them to give you detailed feedback for you then to take away, work on, get your skills up to a level where then you can give it a crack for your summative—your level two summative assessment, the final assessment for level two. And so the continuous is all about honing your skills, improving your skills, and getting ready for that summative assessment, that final assessment. All right, first step is always the continuous. All right, second step is the summative.
For both of these assessments, you will need to get approval from your tutor. So you will have completed either your learner record or your LAP—your learner achievement portfolio—depending on when you started your course. Your tutor will need to mark that and give you the green light to make an attempt on the continuous or summative.
Now, I did cover this just briefly just now, but let me go into a little bit more detail here. So, depending on when you actually started your course with us, program cards are displayed differently in your learner record or what’s now called your learner achievement portfolio. So, if you started your course pre-2021—so anytime before the 31st of December 2020—the program card for your continuous and summative assessment is all completed on one single program card. And as I said, you can see in the comments below a link to Matt explaining how to do that. If you completed your course on the 1st of January 2021 onwards, uh, you’ll be on the new standards, um, which means the that we no longer have the learner record; instead now is the learner achievement portfolio, and the program cards are actually split out differently. So there is a separate program card for continuous and a separate program card for summative. All right, so if you’re unsure which standard you’re on, um, speak to your tutor, and your tutor can let you know. Um, it is relatively straightforward; it all depends on your start date. Pre-2021, um, is you’ll be on the learner record, which is the one single program card, and if you started from the 1st of January 2021 onwards, then it’s going to be the separate program cards; you’ll be completing the learner achievement portfolio.
What I’d like to do now, though, um, is run through the learner record version so that you can understand which exercises that you need to be looking at for your continuous and summative assessment. So let’s move over to that right now.
So, as you can see here, I’ve tried to keep it so that we can view one page at a time. Um, as you can see here, you can see the program card. All right, so we have the warm-up CV—don’t—cardiovascular warm-up stretches; we’ve got the main CV, fixed resistance machines, free weight, body weight, cool down, and some cool down stretches. So, first, we’re going to cover the continuous assessment. So, when it comes to the continuous assessment, there are certain sections that we need to forget here. All right, an easy way to sort of find out which which is covered in the continuous assessment, you’ll be able to see this from this page—page 28—which is the continuous assessment, and this is the mark sheet that your that you your assessor will complete when you do your assessment. And as you can see here, what we’re looking at is your main CV, resistance machine one, resistance machine two—so two resistance machines—two free weight exercises, and a body weight exercise. So, how do you determine which one that will be? Well, you will actually choose them yourself. So, as we said on there, um, as we saw there, sorry, you could see the treadmill was the first main cardiovascular. I’ve not completed this; as I said, this is not an explainer into completing, so please don’t worry about that. The link below can show you how to do that. But so, so for continuous, it’s going to be the main CV; so this is the activity or the exercise that you’re going to be covering. All right, this is what you’ll need to record, and you’ll need to do the full 15 minutes following your program card, all right, covering the teaching points. We’ll cover that a little later, though, so don’t worry about that too much, but you will need to follow this. All right, not to one minute, one to two minutes, what intensity you want them to work, RPE, and so on and so forth.
Here’s where it gets a little different. So, when you come down to the fixed resistance machines, as you can see, we we will choose four exercises or four activities here. I’ve got the chest press and the assisted pull-up. Now, I put a “C” in front of those because I want to choose those; I want to choose those for my continuous assessment. Now, ideally, you will choose one upper body and one lower body. Um, I know that’s not the case here, but ideally, that’s what you’ll do for continuous and also for summative, but it’s I’ve laid this out quite simply that I know that the two the two fixed resistance machines that I’m going to use for my continuous: chest press and assisted pull-up. So these are the two that I’m going to record separately. I’ll record my chest press done, and then I’ll record my assisted pull-up done. Again, if you put two sets, you need to do your two sets; if you put eight reps, you need to follow your reps; if you put 30 seconds rest time or a minute rest time or two minutes rest time, you need to follow your rest time. You need to follow your program as you’ve written it in your learner record. Okay.
Then we have free weights. So, same principle here; um, again, it doesn’t matter which order um you you lay these out in your in your program card. As you can see here, shoulder presses—summative assessment—for continuous, I’ve got bent arm pull-over and deadlift for continuous, and then summative we’ve got back squat. So, for my continuous assessment, I’m going to record the bent arm pull-over, and then I’m going to record the deadlift. Finally, we’ve got body weight, and basically, this is two summative, one continuous. For continuous, I’m looking at the lunges; summative: squats and press-ups. Cool down—this is not continuous. All right, the only CV, as we said, was this one—the main CV—so we can ignore for continuous the cool-down CV, and we can ignore the cool-down stretches. This is all for summative.
I’ve populated these activities or exercises here in the assessor’s guide, in the assessor marking schema, and as you can see, we’ve got the treadmill, we’ve got the chest press, we’ve got the assisted pull-up, we’ve got the bent arm pull-over, deadlift, and lunges—one, two, three, four, five, six—six separate exercises that you’re going to complete. What’s important is these seven points here. So this is what your your assessor is going to assess you on: So did you did you give technically correct demonstrations and explanations? Let me zoom in here a little bit. Did you adopt appropriate teaching positions? Were exercises adapted to suit the client’s needs? Now, on the majority of occasions, this will be not applicable, but there is a possibility. Did you offer alternative exercises if necessary? Again, on the majority, is going to be non-applicable, but it’s there just in case that’s required. Did you reinforce teaching points and provide feedback? Was intensity monitored, you know, so the use of RPE, and did did the client, but also the teacher, the the the gym instructor, was the correct lifting and passing technique used when necessary? Obviously, that’s not required for the main CV or for the body weight exercise.
So, when it comes to the continuous assessment, at the very beginning of your recording, you basically need to introduce yourself. And what I should say first and foremost, we need the sound quality to be good. So, make sure you test the sound quality. If we can’t hear you, we can’t hear you speaking; the music’s too loud, then we won’t be able to accept the quality; we won’t be able to accept your recording, whether that be continuous or summative. So, please do some tests in advance, make sure everything’s working properly. When you get started on your first recording—so your first continuous, remember there’s six to do—on your first recording, you’ll need to introduce yourself, giving your full name, giving the date, and also showing your photo ID. So this is your passport or driving license; hold it to the camera, and that’s all you need to do.
Now, this point is more relevant to level two summative, to be honest, because it’s saying that you can bring simple notes, and this is mainly you can bring notes about your program, maybe. So you can obviously this is a longer—the summative is a longer assessment—and you’ll need to know your program, so you can write down your, you know, the ex the activities or exercises that you’re doing along with sets and reps, but you cannot write in there the teaching points, muscles used, benefits of exercises, so on and so forth. That’s something that you’ll be expected to know anyway when you’re when you’re doing things rather than just, you know, reading from a piece of paper; teaching points, that’s not going to cut it, unfortunately. So, those are things you’ll need to know.
When it comes to choosing the exercises, you can see this from your level two manuals. Again, it’s covered more in the in the video that Matt did, and there is an example of exercise on the following slide. So, this example covers the rowing machine. All right, two of our tutors have got together; one is acting as the client, one is acting as the gym instructor, and I’ll let you watch this, but what I what you need to be doing is following exactly what the what the gym instructor does. So watch it in detail. What I will say is that the tutor—this is, sorry, a condensed version—so they’re not exactly following reps and times and intensities; they’re basically showing you how to introduce equipment, you know, what you need to say, getting on that equipment, demo, and getting on, demoing, getting off, getting the client on there, so on and so forth, and you then need to expand that to fit your to fit your program card, but do have a watch, and this this should clear a lot up.
This exercise here is called the rowing machine; it’s a full body exercise, so it works the lower part of the body and the upper part of the body. Could I ask you just to stand in front of the machine? So when I’m demonstrating, you’re in front of me. Perfect. As a safety consideration, this seat can obviously slide, so but when you sit on it, make sure it’s nice and stationary by keeping two hands on the seat and then sitting down. You can adjust the foot straps by popping the plastic out and slide them in. Now, they’ve got numbers on each side, so make sure the numbers are matching, so you haven’t got the foot straps at different heights. You want the foot straps to be at the bottom of your toes or your first lace and your shoe, so for me there, and then just suit them up reasonably tight. Now, I’m going to press the mach—turn the machine on by pressing the menu button—overhang grip of the bar, thumb’s locked around, back nice and straight. Now, I don’t want to rush; someone gets set first, and the first movement is to extend with your legs, keeping your arms straight, then you pull your arms into your stomach area. Once you’re there, you extend with the arms, and you bring the legs in. So if I speed that up a little bit: arms, legs, arms, arms, legs. So it’s motion that looks like that. I’m not moving my back a huge amount; it’s sort of staying in a stationary position. When I’m here, I’m really squeezing my shoulder blades together, keeping your back nice and straight, head up, looking forward. There’s a slight bend in my knees still, and then I’m coming back in, so it looks like that. Just do one more repetition. Once you’re finished, don’t drop the weight back on here; there’s a little catch; place it nice and gently in there, release the foot straps. Be aware when getting off; the seat does slide, and then stand in there. Now, there’s quite a lot there, Matt, so we take our time when you’re doing it. Two hands on the seat. Thank you. So, yeah, good position; it’s on the first of your lace and your end of your toes; reasonably tight. Does that feel all right? Good. So grab that bar, overhand grip. Now, I’m going to do it slightly; extend with the legs first, draw the arms in, release the arms, and come in with the legs. So what I’m doing, I’m just going to change my position to look from different angles to make sure that I can keep your back nice and straight as you come in, and also what you’re doing, because I know you’re doing it right because the handles are staying at one level the whole time; it’s not having to go over your knees or anything else like that. That’s perfect. And then once you’re finished, put the handles back on the catch, release the feed, exit the machine safely by stepping over.
Okay. So, as I said, that was a good example covering the rowing machine, but let me run through what you also must include when you’re doing these individual exercises. So, we must introduce the exercise and purpose. All right, so this is the treadmill, or this is the the rowing machine, and why we’re doing it. So, what is the purpose of us completing this? We must give the client a demo of how to use it. So that includes how to set it up, how to actually get on the machine or the piece of equipment, how to carry out that exercise, things that you need to be aware of, all right, things that the client, sorry, needs to be aware of. Health and safety—health and safety at this point for level two gym instructing is super important—so make sure that you’re covering everything, make sure you’re including teaching points during your demo. So you you’ve actually shown someone how to get on it, how to set yourself up. Let’s say it’s the treadmill, so you’ve shown them how to mount properly, you’ve shown them how to use the the system in front of them, the the screen, you’ve shown them how to pop the uh, you know, the the auto stop, the emergency stop thing on them, um, and then you start giving them a demo. All right, this is where you start talking about the teaching points, you know, keep your head high, shoulders rotated. Um, if it’s the treadmill, we’re looking for a a motion of heel-to-toe striking point on the on the belt, you know, so and so forth. Um, then you stop it. This is actually this demo doesn’t need to be too long—anywhere between 10 and 20 seconds depending on that piece of the equipment, that activity; it needs to be long enough that you feel you’ve covered everything that you need to cover. All right, then you need to stop; then you need to do a safe dismount. All right, don’t just jump off it, clicking your heels together; make sure you dismount properly, consider health and safety. Then when you do that, we get to the third point: get the student on, get them doing. All right, and as they’re doing, give them feedback, remind them of the teaching points. All right.
This next one is so important: the teaching position. Are you in a good position? All right, make sure you’re able to walk around your client; be considerate of Covid at this moment, but also be considering you of what is your ideal teaching position. So, probably something to practice on, so something to to prepare for before you actually start both of these assessments: where is my ideal teaching position? All right, being behind your client on on a lot of exercises is not ideal, but sometimes it’s it’s required. Uh, being in their eye line is is also fine; it depends on the type of exercise, so give that some some thought. What’s next is monitoring of intensity. So, one thing um that is relatively simple to follow but sometimes isn’t followed too much is your program. All right, and actually we’ve got it here in this this point as well: number of sets and rest; they must be followed. So, intensity: make sure you follow the number of sets, all right, make sure you follow the number of reps; if you said 30 minutes, sorry, 30 seconds rest, make sure you follow the rest. All right, keep an eye on it. What tends to happen sometimes is is people can be a little bit nervous; they go through their demo, they give a great demo, they’re actually watching the the client do things; they’re they’re they’re doing a good job; then when they stop that first set, they seem to relax, and therefore, wow, thankfully, thank God that’s over, start having a bit of a chinwag with the the client; before you know it, we forgot about the rest. So try to stay professional throughout; follow your program as it says here on intensity, especially for cardio; we need to be following the intensity that’s in the in the in the program card. So make sure that you’re using things like RPE, you’re using observation, you’re using the talk test. RPE: you will need to give an explanation of what RPE is to your clients so that they understand it. All right, I would always say use the CR10 scale because it’s just so much easier to explain. All right, we’re going to use something called RPE; this is a scale from 1 to 10 of your your perceived exertion, or how difficult things are, where one is super easy, you can breathe; it’s super super easy for you; 10 is super difficult; you can’t breathe; it’s almost too much. I’m going to ask…
You at varying times how you are feeling, and if you can please give me some honest feedback, and then you’re able to adapt your program. Okay? Um, obviously throughout, try to be positive, try to give feedback, try to be motivational. Um, don’t forget this, all right? It can be easy to forget this because you’re so concerned with everything else that you need to be including in there, but um, yeah, be positive. Good, good job, well done. It’s it’s a good point with the teaching; it’s a good point with the teaching position, sorry, the teaching position; it’s a good point, this, for the teaching points; a good opportunity for you to mention the teaching points again. Okay, great, well done. Your your your first strike on the belt is perfect, exactly what I said: heel-to-toe motion. So it’s a good opportunity to uh to cover two uh two ticks there in the assessment criteria. All right. And then when the client has finished, obviously get them back, ask them how they feel and ask them for any feedback based on based on that particular activity. When you’ve done, you can stop the recording. All right.
Once you’ve done all six of those exercises, then you can share with your tutor electronically. Now we use Dropbox here internally, so ideally we prefer if you use that. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have Dropbox; if you use Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud, WeTransfer, they’re all fine. Um, Dropbox just makes it a little bit quicker for us, but to be honest, not super quick, so you can always use one of those. If you struggle to use anything like that, WeTransfer is pretty good; a free service, something that I don’t think you need to sign up for. And then there’s also the Educated Fitness support where you can upload upload things. Now it’s not ideal for videos because of the time that you have to have that browser open for it; it’s it’s the the support upload function is probably better for workbooks. So I would say that any of these one, two, three, four, five methods um are better. Once you’ve uploaded it, uh wait for feedback from your tutor. Um, everything’s okay. Um, the tutor will then give you uh approval to crack on with your summative assessment, and that’s it, all completed; that’s your continuous assessment.
Okay, so next we’ve got the Level 2 summative assessment, and let me just pop over back to uh to your program card. Now this is the the the summative assessment that uh the assessment sheet that they’re going to be covering, and initially I just want to look at this section here. So these are the exercises that you’re going to be completing: we’ve got the warm-up cardiovascular, some warm-up stretches, resistance machines (which we’ve got two), we’ve got two free weight exercises, and two body weight exercises. We’ll close with the cardiovascular cooldown and the cardiovascular stretches. As you can see here, I’ve already transferred over um from my program card, so it’s easy, and I’d recommend you to do that as well um because it’s a good um just a good practice to understand where you are and fully understand what’s expected. But I’m going to pop back here so you can see it. All right. So this is the start of my program card: we’ve got Matt; he’s my client, and I’m going to start with the the warm-up CV. I’ve chosen the the upright bike, five minutes. I’m going to do this for because I’m going to follow my card, and I’m going to follow intensities; I’m going to my teaching points as per my my my continuous assessments, and I’m going to think about the feedback that my assessor gave me because I want to make sure I’m covering all the points. Then we’re going to choose some warm-up stretches. Now for warm-up stretches, um I would say complete between three to four of these. All right, you don’t need to complete all six, so just look at completing three to four. Following on from that main CV, well we’ve covered this in the continuous; in fact, if you want to make it simple, I can put continuous there. All right, I can even put summative in here; probably best practice, and it’s a it’s a it’s a good thing to do, and you could put an ‘s’ here, but again I know stretches aren’t part of continuous, so I don’t bother. So um when we get to here, main CV; nope, that’s part of continuous; we don’t need to do that; we’ve already done chest press and uh assisted pull-ups. So the uh the fixed resistance machines as part of our um our summative is bicep curl and leg press. Just going back to this, right, just so that you know this is, as I said, this is ideally one long recording. Okay? So when we get there, um we’ll do the welcome, which I’ll cover in a little while, but we get straight into it by going through the warm-up CV. We do that for five minutes; we pop over to the the stretchings area; we do three to four stretchers. Once we’ve completed that, we start with our fixed resistance machine, about machines; we cover the bicep curl; do I set some reps and our rest time? When that’s completed, we get over to leg press; sets and reps; all completed; we get to the freeways; our two um freeware exercises; a shoulder press and back squat; get that done, following sets, reps, rest time, obviously giving teaching points throughout here, right? And then we come to our body weight exercises; we’ve got two summative, sorry, two, yes, two summative uh body weight exercises; I’ve got the press-ups and squats; follow those sets, reps, rest time, teaching points; and then we’re starting to cool down our client; we’re going to do the cross trainer for our cooldown; we’ve chosen a five-minute cooldown, so make sure you follow it; concentrate on your IP, IP, so your RPE. Um, obviously this is uh to lower our pulse and cool down the client, and then we’ll finish by doing our cool-down stretchers. All right. And basically that’s that; that is all of our uh summative assessment; so that’s continuous and that’s our summative assessment; one long continuous recording. Now what we’ve covered and everything. Now what the awarding bodies are saying um because there might be a situation, obviously less people are allowed in a gym now, and we’re trying to keep our two-meter distance, um we can we can um have four separate pauses um within the uh the recording. All right, ideally it should be one long long scoop, but if required there can be four stops, hard stops in the recording. All right, but if that’s the case, you must explain why, and the reasons why that are acceptable is that um it’s too busy in a certain area of the gym; someone’s already using that piece of equipment. And all you need to state is, okay, the next exercise is the bicep curl resistance machine. All right, we need to use a resistance machine over there; however, someone is currently using that; it’s a little busy in that area; I’m going to stop the recording now until it becomes available; stop the recording; and then when you start recording, okay, the the bicep curl resistance machine is now open; we’re going to we’re going to crack on. All right. And and and and follow that process. I mean, to be honest with you, if if the bicep curl isn’t available, I would look at doing the pre the leg press and then coming back to it; that you don’t necessarily have to follow this order uh when it comes to the resistance machine or the freeways; you can always swap them over um but yeah, that option is there if you need it.
Now when it comes to, you’ll notice that this is obviously a bigger section here, so this is a continuous, a much smaller section for the assessor to complete, and here for this final summative assessment there’s a lot more uh to be included. So here um I’m going to cover this um in a little while on the presentation, but just so that you know, preparing and inducting the session, uh did did the student uh did the student welcome the client to the session; indicated the the emergency exits; has a PAR-Q and verbal screening being completed? So with that one, um what I would say is that you can what is fine to say on the video is, okay, Matt, we completed a PAR-Q uh already, but just to uh just to double check you’re okay to train today; is there any injuries that that I need to be aware of? Take that’s uh that’s covered; that that point. And finally, gave an overview of what the session will include. I’ll go through that in a little while. All right. And then this part is relatively straightforward; it’s almost, well it is exactly the same of what you’ve covered in the level uh the Level 2 continuous, so please do follow the same process. Another difference here is when it comes to ending the session. All right, four points here: give constructive feedback to the client based on their performance. So once you’ve finished, take the client off to to a corner while you’re on your own; you’re not going to be disturbed, and give them constructive feedback: what did they do well; what could they work work better on? So let’s be careful with this; you know, we don’t want to hammer the client um and and and problem areas; we need to think of them as, you know, areas for development: this is what you did well; this is what we need to work on next time; but well done, you know, we I can see the effort that you were putting in there, and we’re definitely on the right track. The next is getting feedback from the client as to how well their goals were met. So have a chat with the client: how did you feel the session was? All right, do you feel the activities were planned to what you were hoping to achieve today? Again, don’t forget this is a gym induction; we’re trying to show them around the the gym and what sort of activities or exercises are available to them here. Gain feedback from the clients as to how effective the more sorry how effective the motivational and instruction styles were. So that’s look, how did you feel I did; how do you feel I was motivational; was I helpful; was I clear? Please give me some clear feedback. And finally, checked out uh so I checked that the environment and equipment was left in a good order. Now this is something that your your tutor will look for as you go around um doing the uh doing the uh the the different exercises. All right, so make sure that you put dumbbells away; there’s nothing wise a lot more than that, and make sure that you your cleaning equipment down, especially due to COVID, and don’t leave your assessor with any excuse other than to put a tick in this section. All right. So I hope that’s cleared that up. Let me pop back to the the presentation. So we’re on Level 2 summative assessment; again, I know you’ve already done it, but you need to do it again, please. At the very beginning, introduce yourself; give the full name; the date; show your ID; please follow that assessment criteria I’ve just been through. All right, you should have more of an understanding of what’s required in terms of the assessment criteria for instructing because you’ve done it in Level 2; you’ve had your feedback; you’ve had the opportunity to practice and improve. All right, as he says here, one continuous recording ideally; however, there can be four breaks due to equipment not being available; to crowd; too crowded; too crowded due to COVID; but again, please make sure you state why you are stopping the recording. All right, if you don’t do that; if you don’t do any of this, we can’t accept the assessment video; um you will need to redo it. There is an example of a Level 2 um assessment that we have; it’s a little bit on the long side; um remember it should be anywhere between 45 and 60 60 minutes; if you do go over the top and go a little bit longer, don’t worry too much; um cover your teaching points; cover exactly what’s what you feel is required; and this is uh whilst it’s not a perfect uh example, it’s certainly an example that passed, and it was good, and you’ll get the opportunity to, okay, I understand what’s required of me; it gives you an uh a good example of how to do it really, so please do check that out as well. What must you include? So must include all exercise activities; so follow exactly um not follow exactly but try to follow what the tutor does on the example; so we’ve got the exercise library um on YouTube; again it’s in the the comments. All right, so if you choose your 11 activities, try and have a look on the exercise library and see that they’re individual videos, but if it’s uh I don’t know if it’s a leg press machine, have a look for the leg press machine machine; see what they do; make your notes; practice it; and then you’re ready for doing that assessment. All right, make sure you welcome the client to the session; cover emergency exits; uh PAR-Q being completed; any new injuries I need to know about; you’re good to go; a brief overview of this of the session; so I’ve got that here; explain purpose to the client; so very simply, today I’ll be completing something along these lines, right? So today I’ll be completing a gym induction that includes a total of eight separate exercises along with 12 so along with two separate stretching routines for warm-up and cool-down; any questions? Fine; your client’s going to say no because you brief them; and then when instructing, follow instructions as per the continuous assessment. All right, see these back here; quite simple: introduce exercise purpose; give demo; get student doing teaching position; monitor intensity; follow your program; sets; reps; give feedback; motivation; and ask client for feedback; and as we’ve got here, and behold again, one single recording; obviously with that caveat that we can have four breaks in there due to overcrowding; COVID; someone else on that machine, right? Then we come to ending the session. All right, so we need to give the client constructive feedback; you know, tell them what they did well; tell them what they need to improve upon and how uh how they can do that; ask the client for feedback; so that includes their goals; so so how do they feel the session went as towards what they were hoping to achieve? All right, and then also how they found your performance of a gym instructor; I can always say, look, I’m always looking to improve myself; did I hit your goals; was there anything that you liked or didn’t like about the way that I carried out this this is this induction; and I’ll cover it; ensure that all equipment is left as it was found; again, bit of a bugbear, but you know, hold yourself to high standards; that’s all I would say; the best PTs out there always hold themselves to the high standards for the whole spectrum of things; not just for this part of it or this part of it; the bits that I like; for the whole spectrum of what’s involved in the role of a gym instructor and personal trainer; hold yourself to the high standards, and you’ll not go wrong.
Okay, so finally we come to this section, which is complete the self-evaluation in your learner record or LAP, and he says don’t rush this; make sure you spend some time; you can go through this with your client as well while they’re there, but this starts um if you’re on the learner record, it starts from page 35; so it’s self-evaluation. All right, so some get some feedback from your client; again, don’t just write one word in here; it’s going to come back to you and refer; you need to give a bit more detail. All right, so write three three four sentences in there; describe how you met the client’s expectations. All right, again, three four sentences in there; how effective was the session; pop everything in there; how can you improve? All right, and then once that’s completed, you can share electronically with your tutor for marking, and that’s it; that’s basically the difference between the continuous and summative assessments. If you have any questions whatsoever, please do ask myself or Matt or whoever your tutor may be. Um, good luck with it, and uh it’s not as stressful as it probably appears at first; remember those that exercise library is invaluable to you. All right, so please do follow that, and please do ask questions; that’s what we’re here for; we’re more than happy to help and and get you through this qualification. Good luck with everything, and and thanks for watching.