School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Applied Biomechanics in Strength and Conditioning
  • Unit Code

    SPS6104
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Sophia NIMPHIUS

Description

This unit provides advanced knowledge and experiences for students in qualitative and quantitative methods for analysing human movement and biological and non-biological materials. Students will apply the principles of biomechanics to critically analyse and report on variables central to selected strength and conditioning exercises. In particular, students will develop skills in the use of video movement analysis methodologies, effective instructional feedback involving biomechanical and performance technique analysis.

Equivalent Rule

SPS4110

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Perform a qualitative and quantitative bio-mechanical analysis of strength and conditioning exercises.
  2. Evaluate technical performance during strength training exercises and propose methods for correcting technical errors based upon the interactions of mechanical factors.
  3. Propose appropriate bio-mechanical techniques which can be used to evaluate sports skills.

Unit Content

  1. Biomechanical properties of muscle, bone and tendon with reference to injury and rehabilitation.
  2. Introduction to the biomechanical equipment used to inform strength and conditioning practice.
  3. Biomechanical analysis of the Olympic lifts, squatting motions, pulling motions, and pressing exercises.
  4. Biomechanics of the stretch-shortening cycle.
  5. Methods of observing human movement and modifying technique.
  6. Qualitative analysis of human movement.
  7. Musculotendinous stiffness, its assessment and implication for human motion.
  8. Effect of instruction and feedback on the biomechanics of performance.
  9. Neural activation of muscle and subsequent force, power and velocity outcomes.
  10. Quantitative methods of biomechanical analysis including force measurement, accelerometry, electromyography, and video analysis systems.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be delivered using technology-enhanced learning. Students will be required to access and use a variety of digital learning materials to prepare for and engage in activities related to applied biomechanics. Learning activities and assignments will develop communication and analytical abilities of students as well as providing opportunities to discover, discuss and apply theory in a meaningful context. Students need to be actively engaged in the unit by reading the required readings, listening to recorded lectures and completing assignments related to applied biomechanics within LMS.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseWorksheet30%
AssignmentBiomechanical Evaluation Assignments30%
TestEnd of Semester Test40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Applied Biomechanics in Strength and Conditioning
  • Unit Code

    SPS6104
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Sophia NIMPHIUS

Description

This unit provides advanced knowledge and experiences for students in qualitative and quantitative methods for analysing human movement and biological and non-biological materials. Students will apply the principles of biomechanics to critically analyse and report on variables central to selected strength and conditioning exercises. In particular, students will develop skills in the use of video movement analysis methodologies, effective instructional feedback involving biomechanical and performance technique analysis.

Equivalent Rule

SPS4110

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Perform a qualitative and quantitative bio-mechanical analysis of strength and conditioning exercises.
  2. Evaluate technical performance during strength training exercises and propose methods for correcting technical errors based upon the interactions of mechanical factors.
  3. Propose appropriate bio-mechanical techniques which can be used to evaluate sports skills.

Unit Content

  1. Biomechanical properties of muscle, bone and tendon with reference to injury and rehabilitation.
  2. Introduction to the biomechanical equipment used to inform strength and conditioning practice.
  3. Biomechanical analysis of the Olympic lifts, squatting motions, pulling motions, and pressing exercises.
  4. Biomechanics of the stretch-shortening cycle.
  5. Methods of observing human movement and modifying technique.
  6. Qualitative analysis of human movement.
  7. Musculotendinous stiffness, its assessment and implication for human motion.
  8. Effect of instruction and feedback on the biomechanics of performance.
  9. Neural activation of muscle and subsequent force, power and velocity outcomes.
  10. Quantitative methods of biomechanical analysis including force measurement, accelerometry, electromyography, and video analysis systems.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be delivered using technology-enhanced learning. Students will be required to access and use a variety of digital learning materials to prepare for and engage in activities related to applied biomechanics. Learning activities and assignments will develop communication and analytical abilities of students as well as providing opportunities to discover, discuss and apply theory in a meaningful context. Students need to be actively engaged in the unit by reading the required readings, listening to recorded lectures and completing assignments related to applied biomechanics within LMS.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseWorksheet30%
AssignmentBiomechanical Evaluation Assignments30%
TestEnd of Semester Test40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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