Strength and Conditioning MSc

Middlesex University

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    October

This degree is the ideal sports and exercise science route for students who aspire to work with elite athletes. Learn how to write and deliver training programmes, and monitor and feedback progress. Most professional clubs and athletes now employ a strength and conditioning coach; for example, the Premier League's compulsory requirement for football clubs to employ strength and conditioning professionals.
Why study MSc Strength and Conditioning at Middlesex University?
Learn from noted academics who also work with professional athletes and clubs. This course will facilitate your accreditation from relevant strength and conditioning awarding bodies (NSCA and UKSCA) and provide supervised work experience with high-level athletes (for example, in professional football, rugby, and with Olympic and Paralympic athletes). Alongside designing and implementing evidence-based, sport-specific training programmes, you will master a number of exercise techniques, including Olympic lifting, speed agility and plyometrics. You will also develop research and data analysis skills, and the ability to present findings to a team.
You will gain experience as a strength and conditioning coach and scientist through our work-placement module. One of our partner organisations is Saracens Rugby Club and our facilities are housed at their nearby Allianz Park stadium where we boast world-class performance laboratories, rehabilitation units and testing facilities. You will build invaluable industry contacts and we maintain contact with many of our graduates who have gone on to work in professional sports.
Course highlights
Based in London, we are surrounded by the greatest density of top sports clubs and organisations in the UK
We believe that all our graduates should be high achievers both practically and academically.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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The Burroughs, NW4 4BT

Start date

OctoberEnrolment now open

About this course

Entry requirements
UK & EU
International
How to apply
Qualifications
Students will require an 2:2 honours degree or above in a sport or health related field
Alternatively, prospective students who have completed a non-related degree but have extensive experience in the field will be considered.
Further requirements
To begin the course you must complete a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and provide suitable references.

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Subjects

  • Fitness
  • Monitoring
  • Testing
  • IT
  • Data analysis
  • Football
  • Rugby
  • Skills and Training
  • Research skills
  • Designing
  • Strength
  • Physiological
  • Conditioning
  • Biomechanical
  • Laboratory
  • Periodization
  • Plyometric
  • Moving skills

Course programme

Course content

What will you study on the MSc Strength and Conditioning?

As part of the course you will carry out physiological and biomechanical assessments of athletes and interpret the data so as to monitor and tailor training interventions. You will also develop research skills through both a critical review of literature and the undertaking of laboratory or field-based investigations.

The programme can be studied over one year full-time or part-time over two or three years. Lectures take place once a week, from 10.00-17.00. A typical day involves lectures in the mornings and practical sessions in the afternoon.

Modules

Strength and Conditioning Science (30 credits) - Compulsory

This module will provide you with a detailed understanding of the physiological and biomechanical principles that govern effective strength and conditioning training. Topics covered include strength and power development, monitoring training load and periodization. You will also learn how to analyse fitness testing data to reveal important trends in performance that can be fed back to coaches and athletes.

Performance Training and Corrective Exercise (30 credits) - Compulsory

This module develops your practical skills essential to designing, delivering and monitoring strength and condition programmes. This includes coaching and technique demonstration across strength and power exercises, and speed, agility and plyometric training. This is preceded by analysing fundamental moving skills for muscle imbalances and providing corrective exercise solutions. Finally, this module facilitates you through the certification requirements of the UKSCA, NSCA and National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM).

Research Methods (30 credits) - Compulsory

This module focuses on data analysis centred on the monitoring of training variables and fitness testing scores, used to provide coaches with a quantitative overview of programme quality.

Work Placement (30 credits) - Compulsory

If you are not already working in sport and fitness, then use our links within professional rugby, football and cricket for example, to gain some valuable experience and start designing and delivering training programmes for athletes.

Dissertation (60 credits) - Compulsory

Use this module to become a specialist in a topic that interests you within the field of strength and conditioning. Aim to have your work published, present it at conferences, or simply feed the results back to coaching staff and colleagues.

You can find more information about this course in the programme specification. Module and programme information is indicative and may be subject to change.

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