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Level
3
Level 3 coach award
About the course:
The level 3 course is interactive and involves discussion, presentations
and most importantly practical coaching experience throughout all three
disciplines.
The course is designed to build on the level 2 course, where coaches will
be introduced for the first time in their coaching development to the
interdisciplinary nature of sport science and annual planning for coaching
on a 1-2-1 basis with individual athletes, from novice to age-group level,
and covers more advanced swimming, cycling and running techniques. In
addition to the discipline modules, coaching will be introduced to delivering
field based testing methods, i.e. non-laboratory tests.
The level 3 coaching role has been defined as:
"Plan, implement, analyse and revise annual coaching programmes"
Course duration and cost
6 days spread over 3 weekends, and each weekend is usually separated by
1-2 weeks. Each day usually lasts from 9am - 5pm, however this can be
dependant on facility hire.
Course fees: £495.00
Course content
- psychology
- anatomy
and physiology
- exercise
physiology
- periodisation
& annual planning
- athlete
profiling
- sports
nutrition (training and competition)
- delivering
advanced running training (including field testing)
- delivering
advanced cycle training (including field testing)
- delivering
advanced swimming training (including field testing)
- biomechanics
(included in each discipline specific module)
- mentoring
sports coaches
- strength
& conditioning
- Long
-Term Athlete Development
Methods
of assessment
The course is a competence based and assessment comprises of informal
during each module and in the swim bike and run practicals. A formal assessment
will be conducted throughout the Swimming cycling and running practicals,
where each coach will be required to deliver a 20 minute coaching session,
with 5 minutes of questions after.
Assuming the coach displays a level of competence in line with the assessment
criteria, they will be able to continue where coaches will work towards
their Practical Coaching Experience and complete the course Theory Paper,
which relates to the course resources. For this, they are required to
plan deliver and evaluate 12 group sessions (4 sessions per discipline)
as well as coach a triathlete on a 1-2-1 basis, over a period of 12 continuous
weeks, prescribing daily training sessions, based around the periodised
annual plan. This should be submitted to the Coach Education department
for assessment. On successful completion, certificates will be deployed.
Candidates have 12 months to complete the award, starting from the date
of the course.
Minimum age - 18 years of age
Pre-requisites - Level 2 Session Coach Award
Full British Triathlon membership
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