What is Pre Exercise Screening?

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• Why do I need to undertake pre-exercise screening with my clients?

  Pre-exercise screening enables exercise professionals to gather information about the state of health or disease of a person, to help reduce the possibility of a problem occurring during exercise. There are no guarantees that an adverse event might ...

• How do we manage clients with a disability when conducting pre-exercise screening?

  Clients with a disability should be treated in the same way as able-bodied clients and in both cases, pre-exercise screening is imperative to identify any health risks that require further direction and to guide exercise prescription. In any case, ...

• How do we manage a situation where a client becomes distressed at being asked to seek further guidance from a medical or allied health professional as part of a pre-exercise screening process?

  It is true that clients have often overcome quite a few hurdles to even make an inquiry with a fitness or health service, and that the last thing we want to do is turn them away (potentially to competition down the road). It is also true that the ...

• How should I manage record keeping of client pre-exercise screening results?

  In line with health and medical records, the APSS results should be kept on file for 7 years. The length of time that client APSS results remain “current” greatly depends on the results. If the client is considered low-moderate risk (i.e. does not ...

• What are the qualification requirements for delivering Stage 2 of the APSS tool?

  The APSS user guide stipulates that Stage 2 be “administered by a qualified exercise professional (Minimum Certificate III in fitness with completion of screening and assessment units SISFFIT301A and SISFFIT307A)”. SISFITT301A – Provide fitness ...