How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer 1st4sport has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and 1st4sport awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from 1st4sport.
This qualification qualifies learners to work as a sports coach in a performance environment and supports development within the sports coaching sector working with high performing athletes.
These are the units 1st4sport 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, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with 1st4sport. It does the teaching and the mapping. 1st4sport sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Deliver a coaching programme Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the implementation of the coaching programme.
- Deliver the coaching programme.
Managing Performance Athletes' Lifestyles and the Media Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand lifestyle factors that can affect sports performance.
- Understand the importance of projecting a positive image of self.
Nutrition for Sports Performance Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements for and the principles of a balanced diet.
- Understand the role of nutrients in sport.
- Understand the use of supplements in sport.
- Produce nutrition plans in order to enhance performance in sport.
Performance and Sports Landscape Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Know the key organisations which provide funding for sport in the UK for participation and performance.
- Understand talent identification in sport.
Plan a coaching programme Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of planning coaching programmes.
- Analyse participants’ performance and stage of development; setting coaching programme goals.
Psychology for Sports Performance Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of stress, anxiety and arousal on participant performance in sport.
- Understand the impact of group dynamics on participant performance in sport.
Review a coaching programme Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the coaching programme.
- Create a personal development plan.
Support talented athletes through lifestyle change Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the effect that lifestyle change can have on athletes.
- Support athletes through lifestyle change.
The role of the programme coach Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of the programme coach.
- Understand the responsibilities of the programme coach.
Understanding tactical skills to achieve excellence in sport Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the tactical demands and skill requirements of an elite athlete’s role in sport.
- Understand how an elite athlete works with coaching and other staff to identify own tactical needs.
Understanding technical skills to achieve excellence in sport Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the technical demands and skill requirements of an elite athlete’s role in sport.
- Understand how an elite athlete works with coaching and other staff to identify own technical needs.
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.
- Standard
Deliver and manage sports coaching programmes
- Standard
Evaluate and review sports coaching programmes
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by 1st4sport 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
Deliver a coaching programmeManaging Performance Athletes' Lifestyles and the MediaNutrition for Sports PerformancePerformance and Sports LandscapePlan a coaching programmePsychology for Sports PerformanceReview a coaching programmeSupport talented athletes through lifestyle change
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 · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Deliver a coaching programme” 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.
- Lead it Apply
“Managing Performance Athletes' Lifestyles and the Media” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
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 Deliver a coaching programme, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit assesses the coach’s ability to implement and deliver a coaching programme, overseeing other coaching staff, where appropriate.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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.
Built for 1st4sport Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Coaching Sport
11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by 1st4sport.
- Deliver a coaching programme
- Managing Performance Athletes' Lifestyles and the Media
- Nutrition for Sports Performance
- Performance and Sports Landscape
- Plan a coaching programme
- Psychology for Sports Performance
and 5 more in the full unit list below.
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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.