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Sports Science Essentials: Performance and Recovery

Online
1.5-3 hours
Free

Course Content

Athletes can enhance their athletic performance with the aid of sports science. You will learn about sports physiology, psychology, nutrition, and medicine in this course to help you meet the physical and psychological demands of competitions. We start with the potential career path and competencies needed to become a sports scientist, then go on to the pulmonary and respiratory adaptations to sports, including Newton's laws of motion.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID192079
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration1.5-3 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathIn This Free Course, You Will Learn How To
• Discuss sports science, its importance, career prospects and skills required
• Recall sports physiology, the pulmonary and respiratory adaptations to sports
• Describe sports psychology and popular therapy techniques
• Explain sports biomechanics and list numerous biomechanical testing methods
• Indicate how to come up with a diet for sports requiring endurance, power and speed
• State the common sports medicines used by athletes
• Identify the main chemical elements in the body and the biochemical effects of exercise
• Outline the science of speed, strength, endurance and mobility training
• List the recovery process after exercise
Course Code851

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