Advanced Program in Strength and Conditioning
This program deepens on the role of strength training both in performance and in reducing the risk of injury, including the approach to new technologies that accompany high sports performance, specific pathologies in team sports and psychological skills that coaches should consider for their own practice.
- Category: Strength & Conditioning
- Level: beginner
- Duration: 7 months
- Price: 980 EUR
Official courses from Barça Innovation Hub, FC Barcelona's educational arm, with experts who have worked inside the club. Earn an accredited certificate issued by the hub, available across the Middle East and North Africa through Champions Hub, its official partner for the fifth year.
What you will learn
- Improve critical analysis by completing a training program on the various professional roles within sports science and health.
- Enhance sports performance and prevent injuries through an advanced understanding of methodologies for strength training and muscle power programs.
- Apply suitable methodologies to design rehabilitation processes after injuries, particularly focusing on situations where strength development is crucial.
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of emerging methodologies in strength training, supported by a robust scientific foundation.
- Understand the fundamental characteristics of both injury prevention strategies and rehabilitation techniques, including the diverse injury mechanisms specific to team sports.
- Manage and treat pathologies and specific injuries specific to each sport effectively.
- Utilize appropriate tools to develop effective leadership skills for managing both groups and individuals.
Course content
- Module 1: Neuromuscular Basis for Strength Training
- Characteristics of the musculoskeletal system
- Muscle action and its relationship to sports
- Systemic changes in detraining and immobilisation
- Assessment of muscular properties in relation to sport
- Module 2: Strength Training Methodology: Its Application in the Improvement of Sports Performance and Post-Injury Rehabilitation for Competition
- Contextualization: how can we adapt strength training to team sports?
- Strength workload methodology in situation sports
- Integrating strength workload into planning and programming of situation sports
- Strength in the design of sports specific tasks. Examples based on football
- Module 3: Strength and Muscle Power as a Key Feature of Rehabilitation from Sports Injuries
- Analysis of injury in sports: injury mechanisms and associated risk factors
- Sports injuries and their relationship with the quality of strength
- Strength manifestations and muscle power in the post-injury rehabilitation process
- New paradigms in strength training: muscle building through vascular occlusion
- Module 4: Technology, Strength Training and Muscle Power
- Technology, equipment and general strength training
- Technology, equipment and specific strength training in relation to sports
- Technology in strength and muscle power evaluation
- Interactive technology and strength training
- Module 5: Injuries and Team Sports
- Prevention of and readaptation from injuries
- Muscle injury and tendinitis management
- Management of joint and bone injury
- Decision making and returning to competition
- Module 6: Team Sports Pathology
- Management of medical pathology 1
- Management of medical pathology 2
- Sports Specific pathologies
- Special sports and competitions
- Module 7: Basic Coaching Skills
- Leadership
- Communicational Tools
- Motivational Climates
- Coaches and their Environment