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Health, Sports & Psychology
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
This course explains the physiological principles that underpin speed and power, and how to apply a range of training techniques in practice.
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Exploring sport coaching and psychology
This course investigates how scientific and management ideas contribute to success, referencing unique sporting case studies and insights that will change how you view and study sport. You will consider how the mind, the body, the environment and training techniques all contribute to optimum fitness.
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Sporting women in the media
The mass media (e.g. radio, TV, internet) has become one of the most powerful institutional influences in society. This free course, Sporting women in the media, explores whether gendered inequalities exist in sport by evaluating the media coverage. The media can be highly influential in shaping perceptions about gender in sport and headlines ...
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Coaching neurodivergent athletes
This course will improve knowledge and understanding for anyone working with neurodivergent athletes in sport and exercise settings or with an interest in coaching neurodiverse athletes. Within the sport and exercise sector this may include those in coaching roles, as well as fitness instructors, personal trainers and wider exercise ...
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