Applied Strength and Conditioning Science induction information

About your programme

Module information

You’ll complete your course one block or ‘semester’ at a time. In each semester you’ll study modules. Some are core modules you have to take – others you’ll be able to choose between when you arrive, personalising the course to your interests.

In your first semester you will study the following modules:

• Coaching Skills for Strength and Conditioning 

Coaching Skills for Strength and Conditioning

This module focusses on weight-room and field-based training techniques and strategies and their scientific underpinning.

These methods will be discussed in relation to the most contemporary literature and critically evaluate how they may be implemented to enhance sports performance.

This module will include many practical sessions where each of these techniques will be discussed and practiced with a primary emphasis on how to effectively prescribe and coach them to athletes.   

• Applying Strength and Conditioning in Industry I 

Applying Strength and Conditioning in Industry I

Applying S&C in Industry is a module for students to obtain vocational experience.

The module will contain a series of lectures on topics related to issues in the workplace and some critical themes for students applying their new skills in professional sport settings 

• Credits: 20
• Testing, Monitoring, and Programming for Strength and Conditioning 

Testing, Monitoring, and Programming for Strength and Conditioning

You will:

• profile elite athletes using advanced laboratory, gym, and field performance testing methods
• monitor elite athletes using advanced load and response-to-load monitoring methods
• programme effective strength and conditioning interventions for elite athletes.
• Credits: 40
• Advanced Research Methods 

Advanced Research Methods

This module is designed to prepare MRes students to conduct research using quantitative and/or qualitative methods.

You will gain an understanding of the theoretical and methodological issues involved in conceptualising and designing research and apply it to real-world datasets.

Collectively, you will enhance your ability to critically appraise quantitative/qualitative approaches to research and independently apply different methodologies to answer a research question.

• Credits: 20

Further information about the structure of your course can be found within the programme specification document.