Professional Diploma in Workload Management
Embark on a comprehensive exploration of training load management, physiological profiling, strength training methodologies, and injury prevention strategies tailored for team sports with our detailed course. Delve into modules covering the monitoring of internal and external training loads, selecting and integrating key variables, and analyzing training tasks from microcycles to broad training phases. Gain insights into indicators like weekly changes and acute chronic load ratios crucial for effective load management. Understand periodization theories, sports-specific planning methodologies, and the physical demands analysis in team sports, particularly football. Learn advanced strength training techniques for sports performance enhancement and post-injury rehabilitation, including innovative methods like vascular occlusion. Additionally, explore the science behind periodized nutrition, training the gut, and injury prevention strategies for muscles and joints. This course equips participants with essential skills and knowledge to optimize athletic performance and mitigate injury risks in competitive team environments.
- 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
- Manage different tools and variables for monitoring training.
- Select appropriate variables based on different training objectives and to control competition loads.
- Use data generated from load control to evaluate and manage the process effectively.
- Detect and utilize relevant training load indicators appropriately.
- Analyze workload monitoring data to guide the training process towards injury prevention and optimize sports performance.
- Improve sports performance and prevent injuries through a deep understanding of methodologies used in strength training and muscle power programs.
- Apply suitable methodologies in designing post-injury rehabilitation processes where strength development is crucial.
- Understand the theoretical basis of nutrition periodization.
Course content
- Module 1: 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 2: Selecting Variables: Are we repeating information or providing additional information?
- Relationship between internal load variables, and between external load variables
- Relationship between external load variables
- Integrating measurements. Efficiency index
- Selecting variables
- Module 3: Assessing Training and Training Load Management
- Analysis of the training task
- Analysis of the training session
- Analysis of the training microcycle
- Analysis of the training mesocycle and of broad temporary training phases
- Module 4: 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 5: Training Programs and Physiological Profile 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 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: 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 8: Periodized Nutrition
- The theory
- Training the gut
- Training low
- From theory to practice
- Module 9: Injury Prevention
- Basic concepts in epidemiology and injury prevention
- Muscle injury prevention
- Prevention of joint injuries
- Integrative reading