Professional Diploma in Strength and Conditioning

MODULE 1: Characteristics of the musculoskeletal system.
Unit 1: Movement from the central nervous system.
Unit 2: Function of the skeletal muscles.

MODULE 2: Muscle action and its relationship to sports.
Unit 1: Types of muscle action.
Unit 2: Interrelationship of muscle action in movement and posture maintenance.

MODULE 3: Systemic changes in detraining and immobilisation.
Unit 1: Detraining in relation to the skeletal muscle.
Unit 2: Muscle hypertrophy.

MODULE 4: Assessment of muscular properties in relation to sport.
Unit 1: Surface electromyography.
Unit 2: Tensiomyography.

MODULE 1: Contextualization: how can we adapt strength training to team sports?
Unit 1: Strength and its relationship to the coordination and cognitive requirements of team sports.
Unit 2: Progression in the difficulty of the strength workload in relation to the specificity of the sport.

MODULE 2: Strength workload methodology in situation sports.
Unit 1: Strength training and the need to work with overload.
Unit 2: Integrating strength workload with the other capabilities.

MODULE 3: Integrating strength workload into planning and programming of situation sports.
Unit 1: Strength in the integrated training of long-term regular league class programming. Examples based on football.
Unit 2: Strength in the integrated training of blocks of preparation – competition programming. Examples based on tennis.

MODULE 4: Strength in the design of sports specific tasks. Examples based on football.
Unit 1: Small-sided games (SSG): characteristics for their design and the relationship with the development of sports ability.
Unit 2: SSG in relation to strength workload.

MODULE 1: Analysis of injury in sports: injury mechanisms and associated risk factors.
Unit 1: Injury biomechanics and the implications of strength in the recovery of athletic skills.
Unit 2: Risk factors associated with lack of strength.

MODULE 2: Sports injuries and their relationship with the quality of strength.
Unit 1: Injuries in muscle and tendon structures.
Unit 2: Joint injuries.

MODULE 3: Strength manifestations and muscle power in the post-injury rehabilitation process.
Unit 1: Strength and its different manifestations according to external load and speed of execution.
Unit 2: Strength workload programming in sports injuries.

MODULE 4: New paradigms in strength training: muscle building through vascular occlusion.
Unit 1: Basis of traditional muscle building vs. muscle building through blood flow restriction (BFR).
Unit 2: Programming of training through blood flow restriction: key variables for optimal prescription.

MODULE 1: Technology, equipment and general strength training.
Unit 1: Equipment for the general orientation workload with respect to the specific nature of sports.
Unit 2: Other equipment related to the general orientation loads.

MODULE 2: Technology, equipment and specific strength training in relation to sports.
Unit 1: Equipment for directed and specific orientation workloads related to the specific abilities of sports.
Unit 2: GPS technology and its relationship to the evaluation and control of strength in training and competition.

MODULE 3: Technology in strength and muscle power evaluation.
Unit 1: Use of lineal and rotating encoders for the evaluation of strength and muscle power.
Unit 2: Integrated systems in muscle assessment.

MODULE 4: Interactive technology and strength training.
Unit 1: Gamification in sports.
Unit 2: Interactive methodologies related to gamification.

MODULE 1: Prevention of and readaptation from injuries
MODULE 2: Muscle injury and tendinitis management
MODULE 3: Management of joint and bone injury
MODULE 4: Decision making and returning to competition

MODULE 1: Management of medical pathology 1
MODULE 2: Management of medical pathology 2
MODULE 3: Sports Specific pathologies
MODULE 4: Special sports and competitions

MODULE 1: Leadership
MODULE 2: Communicational Tools
MODULE 3: Motivational Climates
MODULE 4: Coaches and their Environment

MODULE 1: Exercise and fatigue
MODULE 2: Recovery and adaptation
MODULE 3: Optimising recovery and adaptation
MODULE 4: Recovery from injury

MODULE 1: Why do injuries occur?
MODULE 2: Fitness-fatigue model
MODULE 3: Acute:chronic workload ratio and injury
MODULE 4: Recent controversies, and practical applications of the data