Professional Diploma in Training for Team Sports
Explore the comprehensive world of sports assessment, strength training methodologies, injury prevention strategies, and advanced physiological profiling in team sports with our detailed course syllabus. Delve into modules covering strength evaluation, speed and agility assessments, and endurance testing tailored for team dynamics. Learn essential principles of strength training, including periodization, session programming, and integrating these methods into collective sports contexts. Gain insights into injury prevention strategies for muscles and joints, alongside the nuances of training program design and physiological profiling specific to team sports like football. Understand the tools and variables crucial for monitoring training loads, and explore the holistic journey of elite athletes, from systemic models to career transitions. Additionally, discover the science behind supplementation and ergogenic aids in sports, and master indicators for effective training load management. This course equips professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to optimize athletic performance and mitigate injury risks in team sports environments effectively.
- Category: Strength & Conditioning
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 9 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
- Create assessment plans to analyze various motor skills and obtain measurements for future training processes.
- Develop and analyze strength training programs tailored for team sports.
- Propose effective prevention strategies based on scientific evidence.
- Design training processes for team sports using proposed methodologies aligned with the physical and physiological demands of the chosen sport.
- Manage different tools and variables for monitoring training.
- Gain a holistic understanding of the sports world to focus on preventing risky situations, informed by knowledge of context and stakeholders in various sports environments.
- Utilize knowledge of sports nutrition tailored to the demands and requirements of different forms of physical activity.
- Analyze workload monitoring data to guide the training process towards injury prevention and optimize sports performance.
- Enhance critical analysis skills through comprehensive training in various professional roles within sports science and health.
Course content
- Module 1: Sports Assessment
- Strength evaluation in team sports
- Speed and agility assessments
- Endurance assessment in team sports
- Integrative reading
- Module 2: Strength Training in Team Sports
- Introduction to strength in collective sports. Our paradigm
- Periodization and training means
- Session programming
- Integrative module
- Module 3: Injury Prevention
- Basic concepts in epidemiology and injury prevention
- Muscle injury prevention
- Prevention of joint injuries
- Integrative reading
- Module 4: Training Programs and Physiological Profiles in Team Sports
- Periodization, planning and methodologies. Theories and new paradigms
- Sports season
- Characterization of team sports with a focus on football. Analysis of physical demand
- Integrative reading
- Module 5: Tools and Variables for Monitoring Training Loads
- Introduction to the Monitoring of Training Loads
- The Planning, Intervention, and Evaluation Cycle in the Training Process
- Internal Load Monitoring Tools and Their Variables
- External Load Monitoring Tools and Their Variables
- Module 6: The Life of an Elite Athlete
- Systemic model
- Sports career model I and II
- Dual career
- Examples of intervention in different transition stages of an athlete's life
- Module 7: Supplementation and Ergogenic Aids in Sports
- Introductory concepts
- Sports foods
- Ergogenic aids
- Integrative reading
- Module 8: Indicators for Training Load Management
- Weekly changes
- Acute chronic load ratio: concept and calculation method
- Acute chronic load ratio: application and limitations
- Training load moderators and mediators
- Module 9: 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.