SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY – BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science
Case Study: Goal setting, exercise and dietary recommendations (First Sit)
Introduction
One of the key roles of a Sport and Exercise Scientist is to help to improve the health or sport performance of athletes or individuals. This process of support normally involves a needs analysis, to determine the goals of the client, before providing the client with evidence based recommendations on how to modify training and diet.
The primary aim of this assessment task is to assess your ability to make evidence based, training and nutritional based recommendations to optimise a client’s fitness, health or sport performance.
The module will be summatively assessed by the submission of an individual written report accompanied with an appendix.
Task
For this assessment, you will be expected to provide an evidence-based:
- rationale for the fitness, health or performance goals of your client,
- exercise recommendations, for one week, to optimise fitness, health or performance, and
- dietary recommendations to support the one week’s exercise recommendations.
To undertake this assessment you will be required to work in groups of 4 or 5 and identify, from within your group, someone who would make a suitable client for your case study. You will work with this client and undertake a battery of tests, dietary analysis and interview, to identify the needs of the client and submit the full results of the client assessment in the form of an appendix to this assessment (see non-assessment requirements).
All data collection will be undertaken in the timetabled practicals, attendance is therefore essential for you to fully engage in an authentic role of a sport and exercise scientist and gain the most from the practical experience this module offers.
You must include a word count at the end of the assignment before the References list.
The assessment is worth 100% of the overall module grade.
