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16 CPD points - 6 weeks
Sports
Nutrition
The sports nutrition course is designed to provide clear, simple and accurate facts based on the scientific principles of sports nutrition necessary to promote optimal health and performance in active sports individuals. On completion of this course, you should have a good understanding of specific sports nutrition, and possess adequate knowledge to make informed decisions in order to provide clients with basic sports nutrition advice and dietary guidelines that will enhance general health and sports performance. It explores the energy needs for various athletes, looks at pre-event nutrition, nutrition for recovery, key vitamins and minerals for athletes and popular dietary supplements.
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Course Content:
- Eating for top performance
- Energy balance and body composition in sports and exercise
- Determining the athletes energy needs
- Carbohydrate needs for exercise and sport
- Protein needs for exercise and sport
- Fat requirements for health and performance
- Key vitamins and minerals for athletes
- Fluids and hydration
- Pre- event fueling Recovery nutrition
- Making weight targets in weight driven sports
- Fueling weight gain for strength and power sports
- Popular dietary supplements/ergogenic aids
16 CPD points - 6 weeks
Sports Conditioning Coach
This course is intended for already qualified personal trainers who would like to take things to the next level by specialising further in training sports people and athletes. This programme allows you to apply advanced programme design and conditioning methods in the fields of strength conditioning and high performance training to prepare athletes to compete at the top of their sport.
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Course content:
EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY INCLUDES:
The muscular and skeletal systems.
The changes which occur due to posture and special conditions
SPORTS CONDITIONING INCLUDES:
Training principles and methods of developing sports conditioning programmes
SPECIAL POPULATIONS INCLUDES:
Adaptations of exercises for pregnancy, children and youth, and older adults
NUTRITION & INJURIES INCLUDES:
* Nutrition: Nutrition and dietary requirements for specific goals and special conditions
* Injuries: Adapting exercise programmes to risk factors and special conditions within the scope, and the referral process for clients with conditions outside the scope of an exercise specialist
FITNESS ASSESSMENTS INCLUDES:
Procedures for assessing sports specific clients and special population client
12 CPD points - 6 weeks
HIIT Instructor
This course will teach you all the principles of HIIT training and equip you with the skills to incorporate HIIT training into your current service offering or offer HIIT training boot camp classes. HIIT Training is a popular way of training athletes, as it emphasises the body’s natural ability to move.
Learn how to incorporate the following into a HIIT routine:
- Bodyweight exercises
- Medicine ball
- Bosu ball
- Weightlifting
- Sandbag
- Motion stick
- Kettlebells
- Battle ropes
- Suspension Training
- Trampolines
- Gliding Disks
- Resistance Tubing
- Gun-EX
- VIPR Loaded Movement Training
Gain insight on how to structure a variety of HIIT Training programmes, using all of the above, including: Tabata routines, hard, harder, hardest routines, Little method, Fartlek method and MITT method. The routines will empower the instructor to create fun, interactive, group training sessions which will keep your clients on their toes and wanting more.
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SUBJECTS & MODULES
- Introduction
- Benefits of HIIT Training
- HIIT Training Principles
- Exercise Equipment
- Power Circuit Training
- Methods to manage training intensity and overload
- Guidelines for preparing for the workout sessions
- Designing your HIIT workout session
- Communication Skills
- Practical Summative assessment marking rubric
- Reference
16 CPD points - 6 weeks
Injury Prevention Specialist
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SUBJECTS & MODULES
- Chapter 1: Scope of Practice
- Chapter 2: Anatomy Recap
- Chapter 3: General Principles of Injuries
- Chapter 4 Healing Process
- Chapter 5: Types of injuries
- Chapter 6: Posture assessment and Evaluation
- Chapter 7: Common Upper body injuries
- Chapter 8: Common lower body Injuries
- Chapter 9: Psychological considerations
- Chapter 10: Aqua programmes and Injuries
- Chapter 11: Rehabilitation Assessments
- Chapter 12: Examples of Exercises for Prevention of Injuries
12 CPD points - 6 weeks
Sports Strapping
Knowledge of and ability to perform sports strapping is an excellent skill which any fitness professional, sports scientist, biokineticist, coach, athlete or sports conditioning coach can add to their existing skill-set.
Strapping techniques can assist both the treatment and prevention of injuries. In this course, you will learn about the benefits of sports strapping along with how you can use them for pain relief, injury prevention, and recovery purposes!
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SUBJECTS & MODULES
- Chapter 1 Introduction to Taping
- Chapter 2 - Anatomy of upper limb
- Chapter 3 Anatomy of lower limb
- Chapter 4 common injuries of upper limb
- Chapter 5- Common injuries of lower limb
- Chapter 6 - Taping techniques of the upper limb
- Chapter 7 Taping techniques of the lower limb
- Chapter 8 Referral to medical professional
16 CPD points - 6 weeks
Kids Development Specialist
Physical activity is vitally important to ensure proper development of the body and mind in children. The Kids Development Specialist course outlines the differences between training children as opposed to adults fundamental differences in the anatomy and physiology of the child’s body are discussed as well as the importance of physical activity to ensure proper development of both body and mind. This course focuses on age groups ranging from toddlers to teenagers. Although all the essential theoretical concepts are covered, this course is very practical in nature. You will cover all the fundamental movement skill areas and come away with lesson plan ideas for children of all ages.
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SUBJECTS & MODULES
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Guidelines for the Growing Child
- Chapter 3: The Benefits of Physical Activity
- Chapter 4: Exercise Considerations
- Chapter 5: Child Nutrition
- Chapter 6: Designing an Exercise Programme
- Chapter 7: Practical Components
- Principles and Guidelines for Constructing a Lesson Plan
- Examples of Equipment Which Can Be Utilised