Strength and Conditioning

Entry requirements

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Months of entry

October

Course content

This Master’s course prepares you for careers as a high-performance strength and conditioning coach or applied sport scientist at both elite level and within grassroots and schools' sport. Within an ideal environment for scientific exploration and practical skills development, you explore approaches to supporting athletes including strength and conditioning, testing physical capacities and laboratory work, assessing their contribution in helping athletes increase performance.

If you would like more information about this course, please contact Dr Iain Fletcher at iain.fletcher@beds.ac.uk

Facilities and specialist equipment

• New strength and conditioning suite with nine lifting platforms

• BASES-accredited laboratories

• Human Performance Centre with heat chamber for high-temperature acclimatisation

• On-campus community exercise clinic supporting clients with a range of conditions

• Sports injury clinic

• Free gym

• Range of external games areas and pitches including a 4G pitch

Studying our Strength and Conditioning MSc course will equip you with the specialised knowledge and skills required to be an effective strength and conditioning (S&C) coach. You will be introduced to concepts of coaching running and jumping based actions such as acceleration, deceleration, plyometrics and metabolic conditioning in the unit Principles of Strength and Conditioning, enabling you to design training sessions to optimise these physical capacities. Our unit in Applied Strength and Conditioning will concentrate on resistance training, with session design and coaching lifts at its core. Furthermore, Advanced Strength and Conditioning will deal with more complex information and skills development such as periodisation, weightlifting and agility. These core S&C units allow you to design and coach training programmes specific to sporting physical requirements and fulfil the main requirements for the embedded S&C Trainers award that this Master’s provides.

Additional underpinning skills are provided via our Laboratory Skills unit, where you are taught how to use a variety of physiological and biomechanical assessment tools for different population groups enabling you to prepare, perform and interpret results from these tests. Broadening your knowledge base, our unit Sport Science Support will expose you to support systems used to optimise sports performance in specific populations, such as children, the disabled, women and the aging athlete. A major component of this course is our Placement unit where you will be able to develop your skills and knowledge in the application process and practice employability skills for an S&C work-based environment. Finally, you will complete a Dissertation where you will undertake a research project into a topic of interest relevant to the broad area of S&C. To help you with this, our Research Methods unit will facilitate your ability to understand, evaluate and conduct research in sport and exercise science at an advanced level.

Completion of this course will give you the opportunity to work within sport coaching; teaching; high-performance coaching; and performance conditioning. Specific career paths include strength and conditioning coach; sport scientist; and laboratory technician.

Information for international students

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Fees and funding

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