Inclusive Sports Training specialises in coaching athletes with learning difficulties and prepares them to participate in mainstream sporting competitions. IST focuses on "Fun, fitness and sports training" with likeminded peers and expert coaching.
IST offers programs from beginner to advanced levels across the sports linked to triathlon - swimming, cycling and running. The aim of IST is to increase the skills, confidence and ability of young athletes with an intellectual impairment or intellectual disability in these sports and provide opportunities to participate and compete in mainstream competitions.
To buddy (assist) athletes with an intellectual impairment to run and complete running drills and games. These would be athletes with higher needs in the program.
Student volunteers will need to run alongside their buddy, as directed by the coaches. It is likely these sessions cover 6 - 12km. Some drills, some running, but it all adds up.
IST is open to athletes of all capabilities, so whilst the distance is covered, there are various speed groups each week.
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