Course topics.

Try this with Health & Movement Science

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Biomedical versus social models of health
• Concepts of health and wellbeing
• Global health status and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Health status indicators and data sources
• Individual, societal, and environmental factors
• Leading causes of burden of disease in Australia
• Ottawa Charter and health promotion action areas
• Priority population groups and health inequities
• Social, cultural, and economic determinants
• ATP-CP, anaerobic glycolysis, and aerobic energy systems
• Arousal, motivation, anxiety, and performance
• Energy system interplay and the oxygen continuum
• Motion, force, and Newton's Laws applied to sport
• Periodisation: macrocycle, mesocycle, microcycle, and peaking
• Principles of training: FITT, specificity, progressive overload, reversibility
• Projectile motion, levers, and balance in sport
• Stages of skill acquisition and practice methods
• Types of training: aerobic, anaerobic, resistance, flexibility, and interval
• Data analysis, evaluation, and communicating findings
• Scientific investigation design: hypotheses, variables, and methods