Hi, my name's Jennifer Benson.
I'm a teacher at Tafe New South Wales, Sydney Institute.
We deliver a range of sport and recreation courses.
Everything from fitness, sport development, community
recreation, outdoor recreation.
I've also worked across a broad range of sport and rec
industries, and my current specialty is delivering
outdoor recreation and sports coaching courses.
We're going to cover four key areas.
We'll look at industry participation rates.
So how many people participate in sport and recreation and
what sorts of things they participate in.
And that will lead us into looking at the various job
roles that are available, and what sorts of qualifications
and experience you'll need for each of those roles.
We'll look at group management and
leadership within the industry.
We'll also then look at risk management, because that's an
important component of keeping your group safe when you're
working in the industry.
And we'll wrap up with how to plan and deliver a sport and
recreation session.
In this module, we're going to look in detail at those sport
and recreation participation patterns, and we're going to
look at the key areas of the different sport jobs or job
roles within sports.
So it might be officiating, coaching, sport development.
We'll look at fitness trainers, look at
administration and management roles, and we'll look at
outdoor recreation.
We all know that Australians love playing
and watching sport.
It's a national pastime.
Our climate and our environment really encourages
to get outdoors and play sport.
We don't have those terrible northern winters
that keep us indoors.
We can be outdoors year round.
Our natural resources encourage us to be outside.
We've got these wide open spaces,
these fantastic beaches.
Even in our busiest and built up cities, we've got plenty of
park lands and grounds that are dedicated to sport and
recreation facilities.
So cast your mind back say, 40 or 50 years.
A gymnasium was somewhere that maybe a boxer went to for some
very specific training.
They were sort of little divey areas, and very dark and dank
and had a really specific focus on them.
Now, there's a gym on every corner, and just about
everybody has a gym membership, whether
they use it or not.
But it's kind of cool to be a member of a gym.
It every park in the mornings before work, and certainly at
lunchtime in busy cities, you see hundreds of people out
doing boot camps or playing sort of sport of some sort.
And it's that growth and that change in direction that we're
going to look at in this module.
Alongside the growth in the fitness industry and the
change in the gym environment is the
complimentary side of that.
So every gym just about now has a coffee shop attached to
it and a creche.
You could go the gym, do your class, catch up with your
friends, and having a coffee afterwards.
There's also a growth in active tourism.
A lot of us no longer just want to sit on a bus and look
out the window as we visit new places.
We might want to learn to surf at Bondi.
We might want to go trekking in Vietnam or rider a bike
through Vietnam.
We might want to go visit the Tour de France and see those
riders struggle up the hills.
We may just want to go to Hong Kong and see the Rugby Sevens.
There's this growing market of people who want to go and do
things on their holidays.
Another growing opportunity in the sport and recreation
industry is this worldwide phenomenon of obesity.
And obesity leads to disease, chronic disease.
Things like an increased risk of cardiovascular disease,
heart attack, an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, an
increased risk of kidney disease,
leading to kidney failure.
One of the key things that we can do to reduce obesity and
the diseases that are related to it is 30 minutes of
moderate exercise per day.
It's not very much.
So it's things like going out for a brisk walk with the dog
for 30 minutes at a time.
It's increasing the heart rate a little bit, it's not
necessarily even working up a sweat.
It's not going out for a 15 kilometre jog all the time,
it's 30 minutes of moderate activity.
It can be walking for 30 minutes before you get on the
bus or the train to go to work.
Or walking for 30 minutes at the end of the day.
Get off the train or the bus early and walk for that 30
minutes to get home.
We just don't do enough of that exercise.
Only 40% of us are doing that level of exercise or above.
So that means that 60% of the population are not doing
enough exercise.
So that 60% of the population we need, as sport and rec
professionals, we need to get out there and getting active.
In our next topic we're going to take some of this
information and look at specific trends in
participation in the sport and recreation industry, both
within adults and children or younger people.