Working alongside athletes to increase their fitness and sporting skills, competing at an elite level yourself, running a gymnasium, improving the quality of food and drink products, treating physical injury; there’s a world of opportunity ahead of you but whatever area you specialise in, gaining a qualification that is recognised and respected worldwide is what it’s all about at Wintec.
Careers
Sport Coaches spend their days helping individual athletes and teams improve their sporting skills. Your day could include helping athletes learn the rules of a sport, advising on tactics and the psychology of a sport, organising practice sessions and competitions, developing training programmes, identifying and encouraging talented players, selecting teams, ensuring player safety and looking after sports equipment.
A Physical Training Instructor guides, teach and supports clients to maintain and improve their fitness levels. They also run adventure and survival training exercises so your day could see you running training classes either in the gym or outdoors, testing individual fitness levels, designing fitness programmes and looking after exercise and sports equipment.
As a dedicated Sportsperson you will be laying your body on the line everyday. You’ll be training, developing your skill set, consulting with health professionals, competing nationally or internationally, maybe captaining a team, addressing community groups and interacting with the media.
If the impact of nutrition on performance interests you then so will a career as a Wellbeing and Sports Nutrisionist. Providing nutritional advice to maximise performance and wellbeing for athletes, sports teams, and individuals interested in fitness and health.
Helping restore function and independence to someone with a disability or problem caused by physical, neurological or other disorders is the role of a Rehabilitation Trainer. Over the course of a day you may assess and diagnose patients’ injuries or functional problems, use a range of treatments to reduce their pain and improve movement, plan and demonstrate exercises for patients to do themselves, keep a record of their progress, and educate clients on how to prevent further injury.
Programmes
Still at Secondary School?
You can also check out other programmes and career options in Fitness and Outdoor Recreation.