About the Athletics Learning Centre
The Athletics Learning Centre is your home for Track and Field online learning. With over 80 free courses and growing every month, you’ll find something to help you develop your coaching skills.
What’s on the Athletics Learning Centre?
The following online courses are included as part of your membership for all accredited coaches.
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All Track and Field coaches are required to complete this short course, exploring pre-exercise screening, handling athlete data, World Athletics rule changes, and body composition assessment guidelines.
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The Coaching Better Every Season program is designed by Wade Gilbert to support coach development.
Course 1: Coaching Purpose and Core Values
Course 2: Relationships
Course 3: Quality Practice Design
Course 4: Competition Readiness and Peak Performance -
The Community Coaching Masterclass series is designed to the core skills of coaching for those working in sport clubs and schools.
Course 1: How You Connect
Course 2: How You Improve
Course 3: What You Coach
Course 4: Who You Coach
Course 5: Where You Coach
Course 6: How You Engage and Organise -
This series produced by the Athletics Australia performance support network provides information about event-specific technical model and applied analysis for coaches.
Course 1: Race Walking
Course 2: Javelin
Course 3: Shot Put, Discus, Hammer
Course 4: High Jump
Course 5: Pole Vault
Course 6: Middle and Long Distance
Course 7: Sprints
Course 8: Hurdles -
This series of standalone courses covers the technical model and coaching considerations of individual events of Track and Field. These are designed to be extensions of the core principles introduced in the accreditation courses.
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The Female Performance & Health Initiative was developed to improve systems of support for Australian female athletes, through collaboration with our academic and specialist networks.
The FPHI aims to deliver quality education solutions for athletes, parents, coaches and the team supporting the athletes.
Course 1: Coaching Female Athletes
Course 2: Body Image
Course 3: Bone Health
Course 4: Breast Health
Course 5: Contraception
Course 6: Pelvic Health
Course 7: Puberty
Course 8: The Menstrual Cycle and Performance -
This course provides a thorough overview of the skeletal and muscular systems of the human body. Using interactive models, you will explore the major bones and muscle groups involved in Track and Field performance.
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This program, designed by ICOACHKIDS, will identify important aspects of motor skill development and conditioning for kids, propose ways in which you can implement this within your coaching and provide you with some great activities to start applying in your sessions.
Course 1: Developing Safe and Efficient Movers
Course 2: Energy Systems and Building Fitness
Course 3: Strength Training for Kids -
These courses are designed to educate coaches on best-practice for creating a healthy training environment.
Course 1: Concussion in Track and Field
Course 2: Athlete Testing
Course 3: Injury Prevention Strategies
Course 4: Athlete Wellbeing and Mental Health
Course 5: Performing with Pressure
Course 6: Better Sleep for Health and Athletic Performance -
Presentations from Athletics Australia’s High Performance Mentor coaches on a broad range of topics relevant for High Performance coaches.
Course 1: The NCAA system for Australian athletes
Course 2: World Ranking Points and Working with Athlete Representatives
Course 3: Serial Winning Coaches
Course 4: Competing and Training Overseas
Course 5: Developing a High Performance Environment -
These courses are aimed at coaches and Teachers who work in Primary and Secondary schools.
Course 1: Essential Skills for Primary Teachers
Course 2: Kids’ Athletics Upskilling
Course 3: Run Active Upskilling
Course 4: Novo Athletics Upskilling