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How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Active IQ has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and Active IQ awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Active IQ.

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01What it is

The aim of the Level 4 Strength and Conditioning qualification is to provide learners with the knowledge and skills to be able to plan, prepare, deliver and review strength and conditioning programmes that will help athletes to achieve their performance goals. During the qualification learners will cover the following: The role of a strength and conditioning coach as part of an athlete’s support team. Methods of carrying out performance-related needs analysis, measurements and assessments. Strategies to analyse and evaluate assessment findings in order to be able to develop and agree short-, medium- and long-term performance goals. Planning, delivering and evaluating periodised, performance-related strength and conditioning programmes.

These are the units Active IQ registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Active IQ. It does the teaching and the mapping. Active IQ sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Performance analysis of the activity and athlete Real unit · Active IQ
This unit provides learners with an understanding of the strength and conditioning coach's role within an athlete's support team. You'll explore performance demands, information sourcing, and ethical and professional responsibilities in supporting athlete development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of a strength and conditioning coach as part of an athlete’s support team
  • Understand the demands of performance activities and how they can affect an athlete’s performance
  • Source current, credible, relevant information to inform strength and conditioning coaching practice
  • Understand methods that can be used to assess an athlete’s performance capabilities
  • Perform appropriate assessment of performance activities and athletes
  • Accurately analyse and evaluate assessment results to create relevant performance goals
Plan, deliver and evaluate periodised performance-related strength and conditioning programmes Real unit · Active IQ
You'll learn to plan, deliver, and evaluate periodised strength and conditioning programmes aimed at improving athletic performance. The unit covers long-term planning, session preparation and delivery, and performance evaluation to inform future training.

What you'll be able to do

  • Design a long-term, periodised plan to improve the performance capabilities of an athlete
  • Prepare for strength and conditioning sessions
  • Deliver effective strength and conditioning sessions that optimise athletic performance
  • Effectively end a strength and conditioning session
  • Evaluate the session and performance implications to modify future plans in response to athlete’s status and performance
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03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Evaluate the outcomes and impact of performance and practices

    Standard

  • Plan, deliver and evaluate a strength and conditioning programme

    Standard

  • Prepare and Analyse Participants Information and Data to Inform Performance

    Standard
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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Active IQ rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Performance analysis of the activity and athletePlan, deliver and evaluate periodised performance-related strength and conditioning programmes

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Plan, deliver and evaluate periodised performance-related strength and conditioning programmes” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Plan, deliver and evaluate periodised performance-related strength and conditioning programmes” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.

  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Performance analysis of the activity and athlete” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.

What you leave holding

The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them

Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.

See Your Progress Grow Illustration
Active IQ Level 4 Certificate in Strength and Conditioning
  • Evaluate the outcomes and impact of performance and practices
  • Plan, deliver and evaluate a strength and conditioning programme
  • Prepare and Analyse Participants Information and Data to Inform Performance
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Performance analysis of the activity and athlete, one of this qualification's own units.

Performance analysis of the activity and athlete Level 4

Applied to your own work

This unit provides learners with an understanding of the strength and conditioning coach's role within an athlete's support team. Learners will explore performance demands, information sourcing, and ethical and professional responsibilities in supporting athlete development.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for Active IQ Level 4 Certificate in Strength and Conditioning

2 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Active IQ.

  1. Performance analysis of the activity and athlete
  2. Plan, deliver and evaluate periodised performance-related strength and conditioning programmes
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.