Do I need prior experience to enroll?

No prior experience is required. The program is designed to guide you from fundamentals to professional-level knowledge.

Will I receive a certificate upon completion?

Yes, upon successful completion you will receive an official certificate from the Barça Innovation Hub.

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You will have access to all course materials for 12 months from the date of enrollment.

In what language is the course delivered?

This program is available in English. All materials and assessments are provided in the selected language.

Professional Diploma in Strength and Conditioning in Basketball

Collective sports in general, and basketball in particular, have based their physical training on the training theory used for individual sports, particularly athletics, so they require a new approach which adapts to their own characteristics and needs. Furthermore, technological advances have provided new tools for physical trainers, sports scientists and coaches, allowing, among other things, the control and assessment of the workload produced by training sessions and/or competitions. Hence, it is necessary to know this new approach, based on holistic physical training, to apply it to modern basketball with the main objective of optimizing performance and preventing injuries.

Category: Strength & Conditioning
Level: advanced
Duration: 10 months
Price: 1150 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

Implement the tools, methods, and strategies in relation to tactical analysis in football, providing specific skills to satisfy the demand for specific roles by professional clubs.
Identify the parameters and tactical elements of the start phase of the game, in order to select, organize, and transmit the most important information effectively through the use of technological tools.
Understand the importance of ABP in current football and, above all, obtain resources and criteria to develop the analysis of this type of actions.
Apply the most relevant theoretical and practical content for the analysis of the high blood pressure phase in football, which will allow you to identify and recognize the different high blood pressure situations, as well as propose tasks for its training.
Learn about a new observation methodology focused on Formative Football based on your own team, from training sessions to matches.

Course content

Module 1: Physical demands and injury risks in team sports
- Physical demands in team sports
- Application of microtechnology to optimise performance in team sports
- Application of microtechnology to prevent injuries in team sports
- Application of inertial systems in different tests in team sports
Module 2: Basketball physical demands during competition
- Basketball physical and tactical demands. From videos to local positioning systems
- Application of inertial systems to quantify and interpret physical demands in basketball
- Application of positioning systems (global and local) to quantify and interpret physical demands in basketball
- Most frequent injuries (types and mechanisms) in basketball and maximum demand scenarios in basketball
Module 3: Basketball training from FC Barcelona’s perspective: theoretical approach
- Structured training
- Coadjuvant training
- Optimising training
- Structured microcycle
Module 4: Basketball training proposal from the perspective of FC Barcelona
- How to train with a comprehensive approach in basketball
- Proposal for load quantification
- Scheduling of the training proposal. Focus on preseason
- How to modify the structures of a human athlete who practices basketball during preferential simulation situations in the structured model
Module 5: 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 6: 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 7: Force assessment and an introduction to kinematics
- Force platform testing fundamentals
- CMJ understanding variables and phases
- Kinematics introduction
- Upper Limb Assessment
Module 8: Injury and rehabilitation kinetics and kinematics
- Kinetics in ACL injury risk and rehabilitation (Isokinetics)
- Kinetics in ACL injury and rehabilitation (Jump-land testing)
- Kinematics in ACL injury risk and rehabilitation
- Kinetics & kinematics in lower limb muscle and tendon injury and rehabilitation-patella and Achilles tendon, groin, hamstring
Module 9: Performance, injury, and rehabilitation assessment toolbox
- Additional lower limb dynamic tests (squat jump, drop jump, squat, land & hold).
- Lower Limb Isometric Tests
- A framework and toolbox for kinetics and kinematics in rehabilitation and Return to Sport
- A framework and toolbox for short term load-response monitoring and evaluating chronic adaptations
Module 10: Difficulty and Environment in Human Motor Function
- Motor Faults
- Special Teaching Methods for Module 3: Transference and Interference
- Integrative Reading

Professional Diploma in Strength and Conditioning in Basketball