Intermediate BCU Modules

Background Part 2

Part 1 primarily looked at optimising performance through nutrition, part 2 focuses on activity and the person doing the activity, linking how we create energy for exercise with activity. This module begins with learning about our body and understanding how it works introducing the concept of proprioception, it then moves on to analysing the different methods of conditioning looking at relevant examples. Warm ups, cool downs, and stretching are all discussed, explained and critiqued as to when to use and not use. Scenarios of common injuries are given and guidelines as to how to manage them and more importantly the prevention of them. All of these concepts are then discussed as to how they fit into a medium or yearly plan to meet various goals.

Learning Outcome

By the end of this module participants should be able to:

• Describe to improve performance through various types of conditioning
• Choose appropriate conditioning exercise to improve performance
• Recognise how to prevent and manage injuries
• Link conditioning and injury prevention/management with paddler profiling
• Give examples of where to access more information on each of the areas