Specialized Program in Strength and Conditioning
This program deepens the role of strength training both in performance and injury prevention, including the approach to new technologies that accompany high sports performance.
- Category: Strength & Conditioning
- Level: beginner
- Duration: 5 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 different professional roles of sports science and health.
- Improve sports performance and injury prevention through a deepened understanding of the methodology to use in strength training and muscle power programs.
- Apply the appropriate methodology to the design of the post-injury rehabilitation process in situations where strength development plays a significant role.
- Have a broad understanding of the emerging methodologies of strength training in order to explore these with the benefit of a solid scientific foundation.
- Propose efficient prevention strategies based on a process founded on scientific evidence.
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