This Student Book supports the Edexcel BTEC Level 3 National Sport QCF specification for first teaching from September 2010.
Book 1 covers all the core units for the Performance and Excellence, and the Coaching, Development and Fitness pathways. Providing your students with learner-friendly, engaging and work-focused textbooks, featuring expert guidance on assessments and how candidates can achieve their best possible grade.Unit 1 Principles of anatomy and physiology in sport
Unit 2 The physiology of fitness
Unit 3 Assessing risk in sport
Unit 4 Fitness training and programming
Unit 5 Sports coaching
Unit 6 Sports development
Unit 7 Fitness testing for sport and exercise
Unit 8 Practical team sports
Unit 9 Practical individual sports
Unit 11 Sports nutrition
Unit 17 Psychology for sports performance
Unit 27 Technical and tactical skills in sport
Unit 28 The athlete’s lifestyle
Author Team:
Mark Adams, Ray Barker, Adam Gledhill, Chris Lydon, Chris Mulligan, Pam Phillippo and Louise Sutton
All have combined experience of teaching, verifying, specification writing and authoring best-selling books. They have developed educational resources, publications and tutor training programmes and have worked hard to bring you a range of engaging and motivating resources for the BTEC 2010 specifications.