High Performance Sports Coaching Certificate
High Performance Sports Coaching
High performance coaching is quickly gaining popularity among sports professionals and employers due to its major role in optimizing athletes’ achievements. We designed this certificate in partnership with industry experts to help equip high performance coaches with skills, experience and knowledge specifically tailored to the need of the sport industry and the coaching market. This certificate will help coaches and sports professional gain a deeper understanding of the physiological and practical principles of coaching high-performant athletes. It also provides a strong foundation for a career as a high performance coach. During the course, you will explore key areas such as High performance pathway, adaptation, Energy system and performance, season planning and even novel areas such as applied of artificial intelligence in sport. You will also develop transferable skills such as presentation, project and time management, critical thinking , communication and generic skills, both theoretically and in workshops. This intensive certificate program is delivered in weekly modules and consists of 4 hours presentations and workshops. It is an online certificate which allows for a more flexible schedule so that you can learn at your own pace
course content
Syllabus
What you will learn from this course
Course Outline:
01 Week
Introduction - High performance pathway Theory
02 Week
Factors and potentials:
Genetics and high performance
Adaptation
03 Week
Energy system and performance Theory (15 to 20 Minutes)
04 Week
Workshop: Fatigue & recovery Theory
05 Week
Workshop: Season planing Theory
06 Week
Applied of artificial intelligence in sport
07 Week
Energy System, Aerobic And Anaerobic; Including Designing Sets
08 Week
Workshop Aerobic And Anaerobic Sets Designing. Presentation & Discussion
09 Week
Testing Laboratory And Field Testing, Aerobic And Anaerobic
10 Week
Hands-On Capstone; Presentation and Discussion. You'll Need to Successfully Finish The Capstone to Complete The Diploma And Earn Your Certificate
11 Week
Capstone, Presentation and Discussion, Final Exam
4-11 Week
The capstone project will begin on week 4 and end on week 11. It will require you to conduct an original research
project that builds on coaching age group scenario dilemma. We will provide three potential projects involving
annual year plan, periodization and case study modelling and you will choose one. The projects will be graded
though presentation and evaluation by instructors.
For each project we will provide:
1. A data set or model on which the project will be based.
2. Additional references relevant to the project.
Once you have selected your project, your report should be submitted as a single PDF document that includes the
following:
1. A 1-page introduction explaining the basis for the project dilemma. This will be based on the articles we provide,
and can (optional) be supplemented by your own literature search of 4-5 additional relevant articles.
2. A one-page description of the strategy you will need to perform and a brief description of the implementation for
the data set you will use to address the dilemma (the implementation design and the assay). We will provide data
sets that are coordinated with the question when needed.
3 .Using graphs with captions, displaying the results.
4. A 1-2 page description of the results
Topic Content Video duration Lecturer
Session1 Saturday ( 4
candidates)
• Individual Presentation
(10 minutes
presentation and 5
Minutes questions )
1 hours Ola
Final Exam • 40 questions multiple
of choice
1 hour Online
5. A 1-2 page, discussion of your results including at least one suggestion for a future implementation / dilemma.
The discussion should place the results in a larger context of what is already known and what these results mean
relative to this prior knowledge
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Guest Speakers
Mabel Zavaros
Canadian Swimming National team gold medals winner
Tessa Cieplucha
Canadian swimmer- Champion in the women’s 400 m and gold medal winner
Why Enrol
Who will benefit from this diploma?
The Age Group Coaching Diploma predominantly targets coaches working with Learn to Train and Training to Train, which may include:
Certificate structure
Course starts: 16/1/2023
Course ends: 20/2/2023
Total hours : 24 hours
4 Hours/Week
Entirely online
Downloadable resources
Weekly quiz (10 questions)
Week 6: 2 hours
Final exam: 2 hour
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The program
What you will learn.
Upon completing this Certificate, you will be able to:
Requirements
Registration Requirements
Each participant should provide:
Canadian high school diploma or equivalent.
Applicants must be proficient in the use of the English language as lessons and assignments will be provided in English only
— Credential
A Certificate will be awarded to students who successfully completed the course requirements. This program is accredited by ACBPT and AiiAL, and can be downloaded and shared online
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