SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE PROFILE

14-WEEK COURSE WITH THE NATIONAL COACHING FOUNDATION, COVERING THE FOLLOWING:

• Delivering the Goods - Communicating as a Coach
• Coaching Children - How Children Respond and Adapt to Exercise
• Motivating Your Athlete - Use of Rewards for Motivation
• Understanding and Improving Skill - Process of Learning
• Mental Preparation for Performance - Self-Confidence/Motivation/Relaxation
• Analysing Performance - Accurate Analysis
• Developing Endurance - Phosphagen, Aerobic and Anaerobic Systems
• Developing Strength and Speed - Power Training/Running and Sprinting Drills
• Developing Flexibility - Mobility and Stretching
• Nutrition and Sports Performance - Fluid and Fuel to Enhance Performance
• Prevention and Treatment of Injury - Creating Awareness of Prevention
• Planning Your Programme - Closed/Pre/In-Season and Peaking
• Structure of the Body - Human Biology

I HAVE COMPLETED A Y.M.C.A. FITNESS TESTING AND FITNESS ASSESSMENT COURSE COVERING THE FOLLOWING:

• Screening
• Anthropometry - Height and Weight/Girth Measurements
• Blood Pressure - Manual Sphygmomanometer
• Body Composition - Callipers
• Aerobic Capacity - Cycle and Step Tests
• Flexibility - Sit and Reach
• Muscular Endurance - Sit Ups
• Strength - Grip Strength
• Lung Function - Peak flow and Spirometry

Profile Robert Clarke

As a British Weight-Lifting and Weight Training Instructor I am a firm believer in the benefits of weight training and the importance of specific training programmes.

I am qualified to teach the following:

• Aerobics/Circuit Training
• Olympic Lifting
• Power Lifting
• Power Building
• Body Building
• Strength Training

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

• British Weight-Lifting and Weight Training Instructor
• Level 1 and Level 2 Welsh Rugby Union Coaching Award
• Independent Sampling Officer - Sports Council of Wales
• R.S.A. Exercise To Music (1999)

KEY SKILLS

• Motivation and Team building
• Excellent communicator, both written and oral
• Excellent customer relations
• Numerical and problem-solving experience and skills
• Critical evaluation
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills