Designed for part-time learners, this 10-credit programme equips you with the scientific foundation and practical skills to design and execute effective training programmes for athletes at all levels.
Comprehensive Curriculum: Master the principles of periodisation, resistance training, fitness testing, and sport-specific drills with a focus on real-world applications.
Expert-Led Instruction: Learn from our experienced educator through engaging lectures, hands-on practical sessions, and interactive group discussions.
Real-World Application: Develop and deliver customised training regimens, integrate advanced recovery techniques, and refine your approach with cutting-edge tools.
Flexible Learning: Tailored for busy professionals, the part-time format ensures you can balance your career, education, and personal goals seamlessly.
Programme Highlights
Practical Focus: Gain confidence in conducting high-performance training drills and managing athlete preparation across competitive seasons.
Skill Mastery: Enhance your abilities in injury prevention, Olympic lifting, plyometrics, and SAQ (Speed/Agility/Quickness) techniques.
Academic Excellence: Dive into research, appraise the latest scientific literature, and present findings to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Professional Development: Build a robust log of strength and conditioning interventions, demonstrating your growth as a practitioner.
What You’ll Achieve
By completing this programme, you’ll emerge with the ability to:
Develop and critically evaluate advanced training programmes tailored to individual athlete needs.
Apply scientific principles to enhance performance and ensure sustainable athletic success.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate holistic strategies into athlete development.
Lead with confidence, leveraging self-reflection and continuous learning to stay ahead in the dynamic field of strength and conditioning.
Strength and Conditioning (S&C) focuses on the physical development of athletes together with injury rehabilitation and prevention in order to improve elite sporting performance.
Topic
Detail
Endurance Training
Review and conduct training methods for aerobic and anaerobic endurance, lactate threshold training, including steady-state, fartlek, interval, model training, hill repetitions, and sport-specific drills.
Speed/Agility/Quickness (SAQ)
Science and application of SAQ training, sprint training, acceleration/deceleration, reaction/quickness training, and application of SAQ principles to different sports.
Strength/Power
Resistance Training: Sport-specific resistance training, advanced approaches (pyramid, supersetting, pre-exhaust), correcting imbalances, biomechanical principles (joint loading, forces, centre of gravity, levers, muscle action lines, force angle), analysis of exercises for load, technique, muscular development, and rehabilitation. Olympic Lifts: Teaching technique and progression. Plyometrics: Principles of plyometric training (stretch shortening cycle), basic exercises, medicine ball drills, sport-specific drills, safety considerations, designing programmes, complex and functional training.
Periodisation
Design of preparatory, competitive, and transition training programmes; practical application of macro, meso, and micro cycles; preparation for competition, peaking, and tapering.
Recovery Sessions
Scientific basis of recovery sessions and how to conduct them; injury screening and prevention including warm-ups, cool-downs, functional movement screening, stretching, and flexibility.
Fitness Testing
Appropriate testing methods for different athletes and sports.
Academic Writing
Academic writing skills, referencing, performing literature searches, reading and appraising journals, books, and relevant articles.
All applicants will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Lifelong Learning reserves the right to require applicants to attend for an interview to determine their suitability for the programme
Explore our Part-time Prospectus to see the range of flexible study options available, with detailed course information, entry requirements, and study formats. Download the prospectus to find a programme that fits around your work and other commitments.
