Program Overview

The Level 2 Development Coach accreditation is designed for coaches interested in working with athletes aged 12+ years old, and/or want to be involved in the Introduction to Training and Training I (General) stages of development (outlined in Athletics Australia’s Training and Competition Guidelines for Children and Adults).

• The primary objective of a Development Coach is to teach athletes the technical model of Track and Field events and develop biomotor abilities.

• Development Coaches offer structured, coach-led practices, designed to improve performance and prepare athletes for local, regional, and state level competitions.

• This accreditation is primarily aimed at Club Coaches, Secondary Teachers, Little Athletics Coaches, Private Athletics Squad Coaches, Masters Coaches, and Senior Athletes.

Program Curriculum

How You Coach: Self-reflection, your approach to coaching, and how you communicate with your athletes and your team.

Who You Coach: Understand the stages of adolesence, long-term athlete development, coaching para-athletes, and unique considerations of coaching Masters athletes.

What You Coach: Explore functional movement training, plyometrics, and flexibility and mobility training to develop the physical capacity of your athletes.

How You Plan: Develop your understanding of the principles of training, the energy systems, and periodization to design effective season plans.

Event-Group Coaching Electives: Gain the event-specific coaching skills that are relevant for your training , including technical model, training drills, biomechanics, and planning considerations for each event of Track and Field.

Performance Health Electives: Earn 25 CPD points by completing relevant elective modules to your training environment, focussed on athlete health and wellbeing.

Teaching Hours

• Facilitated Learning: 16 hours

• Online Learning: 12 hours

• Assessment: 2 hours

The Level 2 Development Coach Course is the next progression from Level 1 and further develops the coaches understanding of how to coach fundamental skills and move toward event specific skills and drills. This level teaches coaches the basic technical models of the Track and Field events held at club and school level competitions. Additional topics include; training principles, components of fitness, and the preparation and evaluation of training sessions suitable for intermediate level athletes. 

Level 2 Course Curriculum

• Developing the Skills of Coaching
• Analysis and Evaluation
• Warm Ups and Recovery
• Conditioning and Circuit Training
• 100m and 200m
• 400m
• Block Starts
• 800m and 1500m
• Sprint Hurdles
• Intermediate Hurdles
• Relays
• Training Principles and Components of Fitness
• Biomotor Abilities
• Coaching Long Distance
• Shot Put, Javelin and Discus
• Long Jump and Triple Jump
• High Jump
• Race Walking

• The Level 1 Recreational Running accreditation is designed for coaches who are interested in coaching distance running.

• Level 1 Recreational Running coaches primarily work with novice runners, aged 18 and above.

• Coaches with this accreditation specialise in preparing athletes for events up to Half-Maraton distance.

Overview

• The Level 1 Recreational Running accreditation is designed for coaches who are interested in preparing athletes for long-distance running events, spanning 3 to 5.5kms.

• Level 1 Recreational Running coaches primarily work with beginner runners, aged 18 and above.

Requirements

To gain the Level 1 Recreation Running Coach accreditation, a coach must meet the following criteria:

•        Be 16 years or older.

Course Structure

Part 1

Practical course

• Attend a one-day face-to-face course or five 1-hour online sessions.

• To enrol into a course, click here: Coach Education Calendar

Part 2

Online course

• Complete the Level 1 Recreational Running Coach online modules.

Part 3

Assessment tasks

• Complete a short answer assessment.

  Athletics Australia strongly recommends that coaches complete 30 hours of practical coaching in a club, school, professional or private setting before receiving their Level 1 coaching accreditation.

Course Outcomes

1-RR-1: Provide a physically and psychologically safe training environment.

1-RR-2: Use effective communication strategies to provide instruction, demonstration, analysis and feedback.

1-RR-3: Understand motivations, barriers, and recreational running market participation trends.

1-RR-4: Understand the risks and consequences of running injuries and employ basic injury prevention and referral strategies.

1-RR-5: Understand and create an effective warm up and cool down using the RAMP protocol.

1-RR-6: Plan and deliver a training session using common run training elements including long runs, recovery runs, intervals, tempo, threshold, fartlek, speed endurance, mobility, and body weight strength sessions.

1-RR-7: Understand the technical model of running and make appropriate technical adjustments to runners.

1-RR-8: Understand the three energy systems, how they contribute to running performance, and how they can be trained.

1-RR-9: Understand the principles of training, including progressive overload and how it relates to athlete adaptation.

1-RR-10: Plan safe and effective training progressions to gradually develop running fitness.

1-RR-11: Create an individualized campaign training program to prepare a runner for their target event.

Course Overview:

The Level 1 Youth Coach Course is an introductory course for coaches.  It is aimed at people who would like to get into coaching, but have either no coaching experience or very limited coaching experience.  Therefore the emphasis in this course is the “coaching process” (i.e. the ‘how to coach’ rather than the ‘what to coach’).  The elements of running, jumping and throwing will be used to illustrate the key points of coaching practice. Games-based activities will be emphasised.

The target Group for the The Level 1 Youth Coach Course course are those who want to progress their involvement in the sport and be recognized and assessed as competent as an Accredited Athletics Coach (AAC).  This course is specific for beginning coaches coaching beginning participants with potential participants being athletes, teachers, coaches from other sports and parents.

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Course Overview

The Level 2 Advanced Recreational Running Coach Accreditation course trains coaches to develop the fundamental technical and strategic skills for runners training for 5km through to marathon events. It develops your coaching skills in communication and instruction, safety, organisation and the management of groups. It also develops your skills and understanding of fundamental drills, movements and training principles for coaching recreational runners. It is particularly useful for personal trainers who are looking to move into the endurance and long run training space. 

Coach Competencies: 
At the completion of the Level 2 Recreational Running Coach Accreditation Program coaches will be able to: 

Monitor and adapt the training environment to ensure inclusive and safe activity that is both enjoyable and challenging for recreational runners in clubs, squads, groups and individual training situations. 
Evaluate and identify appropriate activities in accordance with the physical, emotional and social maturation of the recreational runners in their program. Vary training activities to maintain a stimulating and engaging training environment. 
Provide suitable feedback on performance, for groups and individuals during training sessions. 
Communicate effectively in group and individual situations.
Use appropriate methods, drills and activities to instruct appropriate technical models to recreational runners. 
Plan and evaluate a training session and make appropriate adjustments for subsequent sessions. 
Plan and implement a variety of activities that will develop the “components of fitness” into training sessions.

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Course Overview:

The Level 1 Youth Coach Course is an introductory course for coaches.  It is aimed at people who would like to get into coaching, but have either no coaching experience or very limited coaching experience.  Therefore the emphasis in this course is the “coaching process” (i.e. the ‘how to coach’ rather than the ‘what to coach’).  The elements of running, jumping and throwing will be used to illustrate the key points of coaching practice. Games-based activities will be emphasised.

The target Group for the Level 1 Youth Coach course are those who want to progress their involvement in the sport and be recognized and assessed as competent as an Accredited Athletics Coach (AAC).  This course is specific for beginning coaches coaching beginning participants with potential participants being athletes, teachers, coaches from other sports and parents.

COST: $230 + accreditation fee

Program Overview

The Recreational Running Coach accreditation program is a Nationally Recognised Accreditation designed for coaches operating in running clubs, public training groups, and private squads.

• The accreditation recognises that an individual has the appropriate skills and knowledge to coach novice to intermediate runners in running events up to Marathon-distance.

• The program covers the core skills of run coaching, including leading a group, planning a variety of suitable running sessions, and writing a campaign program.

Program Curriculum

Why You Coach: Explores your core values and coaching philosophy to develop a clear vision for what you are trying to achieve as a running coach.

How You Coach: Introduces the principles of effective communication, instruction, observation, and feedback when working with adult runners.

Who You Coach: Examines the motivators and barriers of recreational runners, injury prevention strategies, and how to effectively manage larger running groups with runners of varying ability.

What You Coach: Delves into different types of sessions for recreational runners, structuring an effective warm up, basic conditioning exercises for runners, and elements of running technique, including if, when, and how they should be adjusted by a coach.

How You Plan: Introduces the three Energy Systems and how they relate to recreational runners, principles of training including progressive overload, and writing an effective campaign training plan using the EQSA method.

Program Overview

The Level 2 Development Coach accreditation is designed for coaches interested in working with athletes aged 12+ years old, and/or want to be involved in the Introduction to Training and Training I (General) stages of development (outlined in Athletics Australia’s Training and Competition Guidelines for Children and Adults).

• The primary objective of a Development Coach is to teach athletes the technical model of Track and Field events and develop biomotor abilities.

• Development Coaches offer structured, coach-led practices, designed to improve performance and prepare athletes for local, regional, and state level competitions.

• This accreditation is primarily aimed at Club Coaches, Secondary Teachers, Little Athletics Coaches, Private Athletics Squad Coaches, Masters Coaches, and Senior Athletes.

Program Overview

The Recreational Running Coach accreditation program is a Nationally Recognised Accreditation designed for coaches operating in running clubs, public training groups, and private squads.

• The accreditation recognises that an individual has the appropriate skills and knowledge to coach novice to intermediate runners in running events up to Marathon-distance.

• The program covers the core skills of run coaching, including leading a group, planning a variety of suitable running sessions, and writing a campaign program.

Program Curriculum

Why You Coach: Explores your core values and coaching philosophy to develop a clear vision for what you are trying to achieve as a running coach.

How You Coach: Introduces the principles of effective communication, instruction, observation, and feedback when working with adult runners.

Who You Coach: Examines the motivators and barriers of recreational runners, injury prevention strategies, and how to effectively manage larger running groups with runners of varying ability.

What You Coach: Delves into different types of sessions for recreational runners, structuring an effective warm up, basic conditioning exercises for runners, and elements of running technique, including if, when, and how they should be adjusted by a coach.

How You Plan: Introduces the three Energy Systems and how they relate to recreational runners, principles of training including progressive overload, and writing an effective campaign training plan using the EQSA method.

Program Overview

The Level 1 Youth Coach accreditation is designed for coaches who want to work with athletes aged 3-12 years old, and want to be involved in the early stages of athlete development (Fundamentals I and Fundamentals II in Athletics Australia’s Training and Competition Guidelines for Children and Adolescents).

• The primary objective of a Youth Coach is to utilise a games-based approach to develop fundamental movement skills (such as running, jumping, and throwing) and foster physical literacy in an encouraging environment.  

• This accreditation is most suitable for athletes transitioning to coaching, Assistant Coaches, Little Athletics Coaches, and Primary School Teachers.

Program Curriculum

Why You Coach: Explores your core values and coaching philosophy to develop a clear vision for what you are trying to achieve as a running coach.

How You Coach: Introduces the principles of effective communication, instruction, observation, and feedback when junior athletes.

Who You Coach: Examines the motivators and barriers of young athletes, group management strategies, and how to use the STEPS principle to make athletics accessble to all athletes.

What You Coach: Delves into teaching the technical model of running, bounding, jumping, hopping, and throwing, in addition to delivering structured Kids’ Athletics programs.

How You Plan: Introduces the principles of developing an effectice training session and how to progress training for junior athletes.