BSc (Hons) Strength and Conditioning (Progression)

Course Overview

This one-year full time course, is designed to build upon your specialism and will help prepare you to deliver strength and conditioning to the athletic population. The area of strength and conditioning continues to develop within the UK, in fact there have been more strength and conditioning coaches employed by the home country institutes than any other member of the athlete support team.

This year is intensive and practically driven with application of theoretical knowledge. You will spend lots of time in our state-of-the-art laboratory and world-class sports centre with access to high tech equipment to challenge and underpin your existing practice.

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You'll gain the skills and expertise needed to analyse the unique needs of an athlete, and how to assess their performance. The result is the valuable ability to develop and execute training plans that progress the athlete and protect them against injury. In addition, you will have lots of opportunity to be mentored by UKSCA accredited coaches and access to external athletes to develop your evidence based practice.

Why this course at Marjon?

Dedicated time in the state of the art British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) accredited lab
Practical hands on experience working with elite athletes
Mentoring from UKSCA accredited coach
Real life experience and placements
Study abroad option

Perfect if you're curious about:

Should children be allowed to lift weights?
Are females stronger than males when you take body weight into account?
Will I get big if I lift weights?
Is it a bad thing to work out too much?
How should strength training differ for a climber, a footballer or a swimmer?
Are fastest athletes also the strongest?

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Modules

All modules are compulsory:

Honours project
Carry out your very own research project to find out something new or challenge something we think we already know.
Performance biomechanics
Run biomechanics lab practicals with athletes and look at factors affecting their performance.
Applied exercise physiology
Learn how to conduct and interpret physiological testing and how athletes adapt to training.
Advances in strength and conditioning
Develop competency in advanced conditioning techniques and understand the skills needed to become a UKSCA accredited coach.
Nutrition for strength and conditioning
Learn about what nutrition an athlete actually needs for training and competition.

What might you become?

Graduates can become a strength and conditioning coach, fitness instructor or personal trainer. Some graduates go on to become strength and conditioning interns at professional level clubs such as Exeter City FC, Plymouth Argyle FC and Cornish Pirates RFC. Others become high performance strength and conditioning specialists within the private gym sector. Graduates may also progress on to a Masters in Strength and Conditioning or Sport and Health Science or may be eligible for a Masters in Physiotherapy or Sports Therapy (pre-registration).

“I love the day to day work of my Sport & Health Science Officer job and I have been developing greater knowledge into the world of Sport, Health & Wellbeing through this employment. I joined this course as a top up 3rd year student but I managed to get up to speed very quickly with lectures, equipment and timetabling thanks to my lecturers and other staff members. My degree gave me the foundations of how to work everything in the Sport Science Lab.”

Lecturers

Ben Anniss

Associate Lecturer (Maternity Cover)

Ben, currently undertaking a PhD specializing in vertical jump force-time analysis; monitoring and enhancing performance. He is also a Sport Science Officer lecturing in applied biomechanics and strength & conditioning.

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Dr Lance Doggart

Head of the Department of Sport

Lance, a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and a staff tutor and assessor for Badminton England, teaches sport and exercise biomechanics, research methods and data analysis.

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Victoria Evans

Lecturer in Sports Therapy

Vicki specialises in exercise rehabilitation and has worked with diverse groups including adolescents and injured members if the fire service. She supervises clinical practice when students are working in the Marjon Sports Therapy Clinic.

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Ben Jane

Senior Lecturer in Sport & Health Science

Ben has more than twenty years of experience working in various health and fitness roles. In this time he has worked with more than a thousand participants and helped train hundreds of fitness professionals.

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