This diploma course is designed for professionals seeking to optimise athletic performance and prevent injuries in team sports through evidence-based training and assessment methods.
Covering key areas such as strength training, injury prevention, workload monitoring, and sports nutrition, this program provides a comprehensive understanding of the physiological demands of team sports and the tools to create tailored training programs.
Participants will also gain insights into the life of elite athletes and strategies to enhance long-term performance.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to develop and monitor training programs, implement injury prevention techniques, and use data-driven approaches to enhance athlete performance in team sports environments.
Fees
COURSE OUTLINES
Syllabus:
1: Sports Assessment.
2: Strength Training in Team Sports.
3: Injury Prevention.
4: Training Programs and Physiological Profiles in Team Sports.
5: Tools and Variables for Monitoring Training Loads.
6: The Life of an Elite Athlete.
7: Supplementation and Ergogenic Aids in Sports.
8: A Best Practice Approach to Workload Monitoring.
9: Neuromuscular Basis for Strength Training.
Learn to:
• Create assessment plans, analysing diverse motor skills and obtaining measurements that can be taken into context in future training processes.
• Develop and analyse strength training programs for team sports.
• Propose efficient prevention strategies based on a process founded on scientific evidence.
• Develop training processes for team sports, applying the proposed methodologies, and basing them on the chosen sport's physical and physiological demands.
• Manage the different tools and variables for monitoring training.
• Acquire a holistic view of the sports world to focus on the prevention of risky situations, through knowledge of the context and the actors in the different sports environments.
• Utilise your knowledge of sports nutrition, based on the demands and needs of different forms of physical activity.
• Analyse workload monitoring data to orientate the training process towards preventing injuries and consequently successfully optimise sports performance.
• Improve critical analysis by completing a training program on the different professional roles of sports science and health.
COURSE DETAILS
Duration: 9 months.
Average dedication: 6/8 weekly hours.
Delivered in: English.
PREREQUISITES
A good understanding of training would be beneficial