Specialized Program in Workload Management
This program develops in depth the concepts related to workload management in team sports with a focus on football, providing tools that allow professionals to approach their work with professionalism.
- 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
- Manage the different tools and variables for monitoring training.
- Select the appropriate variables depending on the different objectives for training and competition load control.
- Use data generated by load control to evaluate and manage the process.
- Detect and appropriately utilize the most relevant training load indicators.
- Analyze workload monitoring data to orientate the training process towards preventing injuries and consequently successfully optimize sports performance.
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 soccer. Analysis of physical demand
- Integrative module