BTEC International Level 2 Sport

Unit 2: Training for Personal Fitness — assessment criteria

Learners will consider how personal training programmes can be used to improve personal health and fitness.

Pearson Set Assignment30 GLH12 criteria3 learning aims
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Assessment criteria

Reproduced verbatim from the Pearson specification — the same grid the assignment brief carries. A unit grade is the highest band where all criteria in that band (and every band below it) are met.

Pass

5 criteria
A.P1Summarise personal information for designing a fitness training programme.
A.P2Describe the principles of training and their application to the personal fitness training programme design.
A.P3Design a safe four-week short-term personal fitness training programme.
B.P4Safely implement a short term four-week personal fitness training programme, maintaining a training diary.
C.P5Review the four-week personal fitness training programme, describing strengths and areas for improvement.

Merit

4 criteria
A.M1Assess personal information for fitness training programme design.
A.M2Design a safe four-week short-term personal fitness training programme, showing creativity in the design.
B.M3Safely implement a short-term four-week personal fitness training programme, maintaining a training diary for each session.
C.M4Explain strengths of the training programme and areas for improvement, providing recommendations for future training and performance.

Distinction

3 criteria
A.D1Justify the training programme design, explaining links to personal information and personal adherence factors.
B.D2Safely implement a short-term four-week personal fitness training programme, maintaining a training diary to evaluate performance and progress.
C.D3Evaluate the performance and progress of the programme, making justified recommendations for future training and performance.

Command verbs in this unit

The verb decides the depth expected — that is what separates Pass from Merit and Distinction work on the same learning aim.

JustifySummariseDescribeDesignAssessSafelyEvaluateReviewExplain
Pearson's ladder runs Identify → Describe → Explain → Compare / Analyse → Evaluate / Justify / Assess. A Merit or Distinction criterion on the same aim always implies the Pass beneath it: an “evaluate” answer that never first “explains” fails, however polished it reads. Hover a verb for what it demands.

Learning aims

  • A. Design a personal fitness training programme for a selected sports performer
  • B. Perform a self-designed personal fitness training programme to achieve own goals
  • C.

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