HL40581: Strength and power science
[Page last updated: 03 June 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department for Health |
| Credits: | 7.5 [equivalent to 15 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 150 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CWPI 100% |
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| Requisites: | Before taking this module you must take HL30562 OR take HL30556 OR take HL30557 |
| Learning Outcomes: |
Appraise the principles of training to recommend training strategies to enhance athletic performance. Coherently present scientific information to a scientific audience. Critically analyse physiological and mechanical factors associated with strength and power development. Evaluate complex neuromuscular-skeletal adaptations occurring from a variety of strength and power training paradigms. Propose and appraise testing procedures that assess the neuromuscular-skeletal systems ability to generate force and power. Recognise and assess the challenges associated with implementing evidence-based practice within strength and conditioning. Select, justify and apply relevant methods to address contemporary issues within strength and conditioning. Synthesise evidence to creatively evaluate the efficacy of training regimes for specific populations and individuals. |
| Aims: | To critically appraise how the theoretical basis of strength and power training, underpinning physiological and biomechanical mechanisms of adaptation, and strength and power measurement techniques, influence practice-based strategies within strength and conditioning. |
| Learning outcomes: | 1. Critically analyse biochemical, genetic and mechanical factors associated with strength and power development.
2. Evaluate complex neuromuscular-skeletal adaptations occurring from a variety of strength and power training paradigms.
3. Appraise the principles of training to recommend training strategies to enhance athletic performance.
4. Work independently and as a group to collect, analyse, and interpret kinetic data to assess the neuromuscular-skeletal systems ability to generate force and power.
5. Select, justify and apply relevant methods to address contemporary issues within strength and conditioning.
6. Synthesise evidence to creatively evaluate the efficacy of training regimes for specific populations and individuals.
7. Recognise and assess the challenges associated with implementing evidence-based practice within strength and conditioning.
8. Coherently present scientific information to a scientific audience. |
| Content: | Throughout this unit you will explore the theoretical and practical basis of strategies aimed at enhancing athletic strength and power. Utilising a combined physiological and biomechanical approach, the unit will address the critical factors underpinning strength and power, adaptations to training and their underlying mechanisms, and advanced strength and power diagnostics. This unit will challenge your critical awareness of implementing evidence based practice within strength and conditioning, to evaluate training paradigms for specific populations and individuals. |
| Course availability: |
HL40581 is Optional (DEU) on the following courses:Department for Health
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