Sports Scientific Strength & Conditioning level 1

Welcome to Major Sports Consultancy Company Africa, your leading Sports Scientific Advisors .

Course Description

Strength and Conditioning is the main component of all high-performance training. Until recently. fitness has been linked to hypertrophy and aerobic endurance training, yet there are at least 5 key bio-motor abilities to be trained. Sport is now science-based signified by a number of introductions ranging from, testing and measurements in sport, data analysis, and development of intervention programs according to demand profiles. Through our Sports Scientific Strength and Conditioning course, we will be addressing key issues from a sports scientific view. We hope you will find this course informative and leading you to the standards of a 21st Century Coach.

“Sport is important to us all. It plays an ever-increasing role in the life of the nation. There is glory in the performance of our national teams and Olympic sportspeople, hence understanding sport is essential. As sports practitioners, we always strive for perfection, This course will help you achieve your targets through our scientific approach to high-performance training.” Nyasha Charandura (Major Sports Consultancy Company Africa Group Director).

Course Outline

• Introduction to Sports Scientific Strength & Conditioning
• Human Body Systems
• Introduction to Bio-motor abilities
• Addressing Bio-motor abilities
• Designing a general fitness battery
• Testing and Measurements in sport
• Introduction to normative tables
• Interpreting normative tables
• Testing procedures (All bio-motor abilities)
• Validity and reliability of tests
• Data collection and designing of population-related normative tables
• Choosing sports-related tests
• Reporting information to technical stuff
• Compiling a sports specific fitness battery
• Testing quality and order of the battery
• Conclusion

Chapter 2

• Introduction to functional anatomy
• Introduction to exercise physiology
• Introduction to biomechanics
• Principles of training
• Designing of intervention programs from batteries
• Methods of Training
• Periodization
• Conclusion

Upon completing the course including answering the attached quiz questions, the student will submit a typed assignment indicating practical application, data capturing and normative tables used to interpret results on our website within a period of two weeks upon completing the online program.