Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation · Stage 6

Foundations of Movement and Fitness

Skill acquisition, fitness and the physiology that underpins safe participation.

Dot points
8
Module
1 of 4
Course
Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation
01What this module asks of you

The 8 syllabus dot points in Foundations of Movement and Fitness

These are the statements the Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation syllabus makes about Foundations of Movement and Fitness. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.

  1. 01

    Skill Acquisition

    How skills are learned, the stages of learning, and what feedback does at each stage.

  2. 02

    Components of Fitness

    Health- and skill-related components, and matching a component to a demand.

  3. 03

    Fitness Testing and Programming

    Selecting valid tests, reading results, and designing a program that follows from them.

  4. 04

    Energy Systems

    The three energy systems, their contribution by intensity and duration, and recovery.

  5. 05

    Warm-Up and Recovery

    Preparation and recovery protocols, and the physiological reasons behind them.

  6. 06

    Training Principles

    Overload, specificity, progression, reversibility and recovery applied to a program.

  7. 07

    Biomechanics of Movement

    Levers, balance and force application, and how technique changes efficiency.

  8. 08

    Skill Classification

    Open and closed, gross and fine skills, and why the classification changes how a skill is taught.

02How it is examined

What a Foundations of Movement and Fitness question asks you to do

SLR - School-Based Assessment Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Foundations of Movement and Fitness are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation uses.

analyse3–5apply3–5assess3–6design4–6evaluate8–10evaluate3–5explain3–5identify1justify3–5propose3–6

Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.

03Where this module sits

Foundations of Movement and Fitness in the Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation course

Foundations of Movement and Fitness opens the Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.

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Find the Foundations of Movement and Fitness dot points you have never been asked

Dux diagnoses Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.