Sport and Exercise Science

Reviewing Scientific Literature

An important feature of graduate injury rehabilitation and manual therapy is that therapists operate within an evidence-based paradigm, it is therefore important that students gain knowledge and understanding of searching for, appraising, and interpreting evidence. This module will introduce students to the skills necessary to find relevant academic journal articles, extract key information from these articles, and interpret their findings. This module provides the transferable skills needed to write assignments on the degree.

Module code: SPOR40961

Fundamental Introduction To Exercise Prescription

The module will provide you with essential knowledge and experience in the delivery of exercise prescription through the development of an instructional resource. Your resource will be in a multi-platform format with video, audio and written elements ensuring the viable use of the resource across diverse populations, e.g., special populations. You will develop an understanding of the principles of exercise prescription through a series of lectures and practical workshops and develop your knowledge, understanding and proficient delivery in exercise prescription for a range of performance setting. You will also be introduced to the principles of performance assessment in strength and conditioning settings for essential components of performance, e.g., speed, agility, strength, and power. The module will develop your knowledge and understanding of the muscular-skeletal, cardio-vascular and neuro-muscular systems in relation to the principles of training for performance.

Module code: SPOR40959

Fundamentals Of The Psychology Of Sport And Exercise

In this module students will be introduced to a number of psychological concepts that have applications in sports settings. Specifically, the selected theoretical approaches will be: 1. Approaches to understanding human behaviour within sport and exercise settings.2. Basic processes underlying learning and performance in sport using a human cognitive model.3. Psychological theories that have been applied to exercise adoption, participation and adherence.

Module code: SPOR40973

Conducting Research

This module gives students the opportunity to undertake their own research and use the findings to inform their practice. The module will introduce students to a range of experimental trial designs including, cohort, case control, cross-sectional and randomised controlled trials. Students will replicate an experimental trial in which they will be required to plan, conduct and report the findings of a injury rehabilitation and manual therapies related project. Students will be introduced to the methodological features used to control bias in experimental studies and to the analytical tools used to interpret the data collected.

Module code: SPOR40957

Fundamental Principles Of Human Movement For Sports Performance And Minimising Injury Risk

This module will provide you with an introduction to functional anatomy and the various systems of the body (such as the musculoskeletal and nervous systems) in the context of biomechanics, which is the science of applying the principles of mechanics to a living body to detail how and why living bodies move the way they do. You will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of human movement analysis through studying basic anatomical and movement descriptors. You will also be introduced to the measurement of human movement, whether aimed to enhance sports performance or minimise injury risk, via technologies and techniques for assessing sports-related kinematics (the description of motion) and kinetics (the cause of motion). Through laboratory exploration, you will gain practical and technical skills in data collection and data analysis that will provide you with a basic understanding of research processes.

Module code: SPOR40972

Fundamentals Of Exercise Physiology

To understand how to support an athlete or group of athletes as an exercise physiologist, you need to understand about how the various systems of the body, such as the cardiovascular, respiratory, neuromuscular, and metabolic systems, function and respond to a bout of exercise and a period of training. We can assess the athlete in the lab and in the field using things like V¿O2max tests, lactate performance tests, maximal intensity exercise tests, body composition analysis and flexibility measures. As part of this module, you will, therefore, also gain and develop your practical and technical skills in carrying out and evaluating such tests, as well as how to collect, analyse and interpret the data so that feedback can be given to the athlete/ athletes.

Module code: SPOR40958

Placement: Sport And Exercise Science

The Placement: Sport and Exercise Science module develops from an evidenced-based approach towards employability by ensuring you recognise the skills the experience provides and are able to articulate these in comprehensive format. The module also provides experiential content that will encourage you to understand your unique starting point (and potential challenges), develop a career plan, gain experience and be prepared to express your knowledges, skills and experiences in written application and interview settings. The placement module provides you with experience of learning from and applying knowledge to a Sport and Exercise Science or Strength and Conditioning relevant working environment. The placement also provides you with the opportunity to develop key personal and transferable skills by applying your knowledge and skills to a specific context relevant to your areas of interest. The placement module allows you to meet the university employability framework through the development of the following competencies: managing/embracing change; life wide learning skills; digital fluency and adaptability; problem solving and managed self development and skiled collaborator. Whilst the placement module has generic aims and learning outcomes the detail of each placement will be determined through negotiation by you, the module leader and other supervisory academic staff.

Module code: SPOR50949

Exercise Physiology

This module consolidates learning of basic physiological principles from level 4. It introduces you to more advanced physiological testing and monitoring procedures for assessing human performance so it can be applied to competitive sport or exercise for health and fitness. You will be provided with an in-depth knowledge and critical understanding of the methods and principles of training programme design. Content will include, for instance, the concepts of periodised and polarised training, altitude training, and training and adaption in extreme environments. You will be taught how to measure, describe and analyse the chronic adaptations to training as well as the markers associated with overtraining. How to offset overtraining and implement recovery techniques in the design of a training programme will also be analysed.

Module code: SPOR50948

Biomechanical Analysis Of Human Movement For Sport, Exercise And Health

This module will build on your basic understanding of functional anatomy and biomechanics, with a focus on developing your understanding on biomechanical data acquisition and data analysis procedures that will critically inform on research, coaching instruction, and exercise prescription. You will gain practical experience on the combined measurement of motion, and/or force, pressure, muscle activity, which is applicable to walking and running gait assessments, quantifying the demands of exercise, and quantifying movement during sporting activities or clinical assessments. Based on the interpretation of data from laboratory and field-based measurements, you will be taught the basics of developing and writing biomechanical reports. You will gain practical experience on comparing outcome measures from several measurement systems on a certain topic to develop your critical interpretation skills and understanding of data that will guide exercise prescription. You will also gain knowledge and practical experience of experimental research when conducting laboratory and field-based assessments.

Module code: SPOR50928

Conducting Rigorous Research

The module builds upon the material taught at level 4 on the conducting research module. Students will be introduced to randomisation, controls, allocation concealment, blinding and sample size requirements in order to minimise bias. Students will be required to plan, conduct, analyse and report the findings of a project related to injury rehabilitation and manual therapy. Where possible the principles of conducting rigorous research will be taught in a practical applied way so that students also gain an appreciation for the impact of implement specific components of research design.

Module code: SPOR50929

Advanced Sport And Exercise Psychology

This module provides an understanding of contemporary topics in sport and exercise psychology focusing broadly on issues arising from the study of individual differences, affective states (e.g., anxiety and mood) and social factors (e.g., leadership and group cohesion). Students will be provided with theoretical and research knowledge on a range of contemporary sport and exercise psychology related issues. Practical examples will be provided throughout the module to incorporate theoretical learning within practice. Sport and exercise research methodologies will be explored and critically analysed. The importance of engaging in exercise or physical activity from a broader society perspective will also be outlined.

Module code: SPOR50947

Sports Nutrition

This module introduces you to the concepts of nutrition as they apply to general health and wellbeing as well as performance for the competing athlete. You will learn the role of macronutrients, micronutrients and fluid balance in the diet and their subsequent effect on athletic performance whilst exploring recent developments in nutritional research. In groups, you will design and implement an experiment that assesses the efficacy, using appropriate statistical analyses, of popular nutritional and/or ergogenic aids whilst addressing the confounding factors that diet may have on the effectiveness of these supplements.

Module code: SPOR50932

Movement Screening And Periodisation For Performance Development And Injury Reduction

This module provides learning opportunities that will enable you to critically understand and apply movement screening and optimal periodised strategies for organising Strength and Conditioning programmes. You will explore the research literature to critically demonstrate knowledge of applied screening and training protocols relating to the manipulation of timings, sequences, intensity and duration of exercise activities based on the physical / physiological level of the athlete and constraints of the competitive season and / or technical / tactical programme. You will develop a critical awareness of total athlete management strategies designed to promote optimal adaptations to a training stimulus and will develop knowledge and understanding of the factors that will create an environment specifically designed to promote sporting success.

Module code: SPOR50950

Strength And Conditioning: Fundamental Principles Of Performance Training

The module will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the principles of Strength and Conditioning and develop your ability to perform essential practical elements of Strength and Conditioning coaching. These include the coaching of Olympic Weightlifting core lifts and derivatives of them for sports performance. You will also be introduced to the principles of conditioning and the relationship to components of performance e.g. speed, agility, repeated sprint ability, reactive strength, endurance and skill acquisition.This module provides learning opportunities that will enable you to critically understand optimal training protocols for developing physical performance. You will explore the research literature to critically demonstrate knowledge of applied protocols relating to the principles of training.

Module code: SPOR50951

Exercise Physiology For Sports Performance

Module code: SPOR60968

Independent Investigational Project

Module code: SPOR60969

Contemporary Issues In Clinical Sport And Exercise Science

Module code: SPOR60967

The Psychology Of Competitive Performance: Theory And Practice

Module code: SPOR60970

Applied Biomechanics To Enhance Sports Performance And To Guide Rehabilitation Interventions

Module code: SPOR60965

Applied Strength And Conditioning For Human Performance And Injury Reduction

Module code: SPOR60966

Strength And Conditioning For Special Populations

Module code: SPOR60971