The UK Athletics Strength and Conditioning Course is a two-day course for coaches, trainers and athletes to gain knowledge and skills to design and implement safe and effective strength and conditioning programs. It is designed specifically with athletes in mind, improving athletic performance through developments in strength power and speed.
Course Content
1. The importance of neuromuscular adaptations to developing power and speed.
2. Integrating dynamic warm up prior to Olympic lifting / Squatting techniques.
3. Squat clean / Clean first and second pulls / Stiff leg dead lift.
4. Snatch technique / Snatch first and second pulls / Variations on Snatch including dumbbells.
5. Combination lifts / Complex training.
6. Movement Analysis.
Course Dates
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Date 1
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Date 2
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Course
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Region
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Code
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Venue
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21/06/08
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22/06/08
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Strength and Conditioning
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South East
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Lee Valley Athletics Centre
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13/09/08
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14/09/08
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Strength & Conditioning
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East Midlands
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EM3SC003
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Loughborough University
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Fees
Course fee is £100, which includes resource materials.
Contact
For more information about course dates or venues, including those planned for 2007, please contact the coach education contact for your region.
Course Testimony
The course was totally enlightening for me and definitely pointed a way
forward to achieving better results for my athletes.
The Tutors delivered a fascinating introduction to Strength and
Conditioning and the practical part of the weekend opened my eyes to the
demands that can be made of athletes. They were interesting and
entertaining and backed up everything with scientific references for those
of us who wanted to check out the theories further. Learning definitely
took place.
I loved their philosophy - Just do it. I shall.
Ann Third (Hilary)
