Course Information

This qualifications allow you to independently plan, deliver and evaluate triathlon related activities to groups of children and/ or adults in any of the Level 2 coaching environments, including coaching in open water environments.

This course focuses on producing a competent club session coach who can promote the benefits of participating in triathlon, and  develop appropriate skill acquisition through quality coaching of participants from grass roots level upwards.

Course Content 

• Understanding and analysing athletes 
• Planning a series of sessions 
• Working with  a range of ages, abilities and aspirations
• Coaching safety including open water swimming 
• Learners will have access to an online resource (LearningHub) with the technical components of the sport across swim, cycle, run and transitions.

Overview 

The course is spread over around 30 hours  over a period of 5-6 months consists of:

Blended learning via webinars and directed learning, practical coaching sessions face to face over 2 days ( sat/sunday) 
Final assessment submitted  by video and personal review 

In addition to 40-60 hours of home study which includes:

• Pre course work for each weekend attended  
• Session planning and delivery of 6-10 coaching sessions in club environment.
• Completion of online tasks.
• Review of online learning resource. 

Course Webinar and Practical Dates

Webinar:         Monday 8th February 2021 : 6:30pm - 8:00pm : What is coaching, philosophy, different approaches.

Webinar:         Monday 22nd February 2021 : 6:30pm - 8:00pm : Conditioning Sessions.

Webinar:         Wednesday 24th February 2021 : 6:30pm - 8:00pm : Periodisation and Planning.

Webinar:         Monday 1st March 2021 : 6:30pm - 8:00pm : Planning Swimming.

Webinar:         Monday 8th March 2021 : 6:30pm - 8:00pm : Bike.

Webinar:         Monday 15th March 2021 : 6:30pm - 8:00pm : Run.

Webinar:        Monday 22nd March 2021 : 6:30pm - 7:30pm : Coaching in Challenging Environments.

Webinar:        Monday 29th March 2021 : 6:30pm - 8:00pm : Ethical Coaching, Sports Psych, CPD.

Optional Webinar:     Monday 3rd May 2021 : 6:30pm  - 8:00pm : Discussing Course Work

Face : Face :    Saturday 22nd May 2021 : 10:30am - 4:30pm : Bike and Swim.

Face : Face:     Sunday 23rd May 2021 : 10:00am - 1:30pm : Run.

Please ensure you can attend the webinars and dates as listed, whilst we will aim to record all course webinars ths cannot be guaranteed.

Course Venue

Mount Kelly, Parkwood Road, Tavistock, Devon, PL19 0HZ