Sports Performance: Training the Body for Sport
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Sports Performance: Training the Body for Sport
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Explore how to meet athletes' training needs using modern strength and conditioning training alongside effective monitoring.
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹900 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Sports Performance: Training the Body for Sport
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- Overview
- Highlights
- Course Details
- Curriculum
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Sports Performance: Training the Body for Sport
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- Earn a certificate upon completion
Sports Performance: Training the Body for Sport at FutureLearn Course details
Sports Performance: Training the Body for Sport
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Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
- Taking a multidisciplinary approach to supporting athlete performance, by identifying their training needs
- Topical issues in strength and conditioning to enhance athletes' training for sport, including the use of technology, functional training, and female-specific training
- Principles of athlete monitoring that allow insights into athlete wellness and effective adjustment of training programmes
- The application of strength and conditioning using case studies and how you can apply this to your own setting
More about this course
- On this four-week course designed by sport and fitness experts at The Open University, you’ll expand your knowledge of some of the current issues and thinking around training individuals, teams, and specific groups as they prepare for performance
- Through engaging learning materials, you’ll discover why taking a multidisciplinary approach to physical preparation in sport is key to supporting an athlete’s or team’s performance and how you can use this to get the best from your training methods
- You’ll explore topical issues, such as how much should female and male training differ, what benefits can new technology bring to performance, and how athlete monitoring or functional training can be used
- You’ll learn about the science underpinning athlete monitoring and how you can apply it to better meet the training needs of athletes
- This will help you determine how to adjust training and wellness strategies so you can ensure athletes are optimised and ready for performance
Sports Performance: Training the Body for Sport at FutureLearn Curriculum
Sports Performance: Training the Body for Sport
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Exploring an athlete's training needs
Welcome
What is a multidisciplinary approach?
How can we best understand the needs of an athlete?
How do you profile and test an athlete?
Topical issues in strength and conditioning
Principles of training
How can current technological trends help performance?
How has functional training developed?
How does female and male training differ?
Wrap-up
What is athlete monitoring?
What are the measurable components of training?
What are internal and external training loads?
How can we measure fatigue?
Wrap-up
Training for performance
How much resistance training should children do?
Working with teams
How do we work with an individual athlete?
Wrap-up
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