Certificate in Soccer Training Load Management

• Led by Professor Darren Paul.
• Soccer specific player testing and monitoring strategies based around real evidence.
• Coach and player considerations on monitoring.
• Considering the different monitoring and testing protocols possible. 

• Led by Patrick Orme.
• Key injury reduction strategies currently associated and used within professional soccer.
• The link between the physical stimulus required to keep players healthy and available to train.
• Key soccer process planning and scheduling.

• Led by Professor Vasilios Kalapotharakos.
• Considerations and applications of training and monitoring in soccer.
• Theoretical models surrounding training load management.
• Understand the internal and external methods used.

• Led by Dr. Dawid Golinski.
• Load monitoring methods used functionally within the game, allowing you to explore weekly training microcycles.
• Specific soccer strategies for planning and performance, and how you can implement them in your work with the team.

• Led by Dr. Xinyi Ji.
• The role of external load monitoring processes in professional soccer.
• Understanding GPS tracking systems.

• Led by Dr. Berni Guerrero.
• Understand the difference between testing and monitoring.
• Internal and external methodologies used in testing and monitoring.
• Practical application of testing and monitoring and how it can be put in place within a soccer specific environment.

• Led by Dr. Dawid Golinski.
• Examine the subjective load analysis and the RPE or effort assessment from a soccer specific process.
• Monitoring tools approaches and wellness monitoring.
• Detailed microcycle planning.
• Integrating literature around the acute versus chronic workload principle.

• Led by Dr. Adam Owen.
• The appliance of science into an applied setting with a detailed case study example in elite soccer.
• Examine soccer specific training load management within high-performance settings and philosophies.
• Specific indicators of injury reduction of risk factors from a player and coach centred perspective.

Once enrolled, you have six months to complete your studies.

You will study this course by distance learning, which will enable you to learn when and where you want. You can study from home or at work, it is completely up to you. All your materials will be delivered online.

Upon successful completion of the course, you will achieve a Certificate in Soccer Training Load Management.

You will complete eight individual tasks which are based on what you have studied during the eight modules. You will submit your assignments via the learning portal and receive feedback from a member of the team.