Learning Outcomes

Sports Science, Physiology and Psychology

Sports Biomechanics, Biochemistry and Nutrition

Training, Recovery and Medicines

Lesson Summary

In this module, you will learn about the importance, career prospects and skills required in sports science before looking at how our body adapts to keep up with the physical and mental demands. We cover sports psychology and sports biomechanics to improve the performance of athletes, including sports biochemistry with diet for endurance and speed.

Sports Science Essentials: Performance and Recovery - Course Assessment

Discover the relevant skills required and information to become a sports scientist in this free online training course.

Sports Science Essentials: Performance and Recovery

Athletes can enhance their athletic performance with the aid of sports science. You will learn about sports physiology, psychology, nutrition, and medicine in this course to help you meet the physical and psychological demands of competitions. We start with the potential career path and competencies needed to become a sports scientist, then go on to the pulmonary and respiratory adaptations to sports, including Newton's laws of motion.

Introduction to Sports Psychology

Mental Toughness

Imagery in Sports

Motivation in Sport

Goal Setting in Sport

Arousal Regulation

This module will take you through the basics of sports psychology, teaching you about mental toughness. How to use imagery for training and the aspects of ever-changing motivation in sports. Learn about the importance to success in sports using goal setting, along with regulating arousal.

Concentration

Arousal, Stress, and Anxiety

Athletic Injuries and Psychology

Exercise and Psychological Wellbeing

Sports Psychology for a Coach

Parents Involvement in Sports Psychology

Sports Psychology at Workplace

This module will teach you about the importance and various aspects of concentration in sports. You will learn about the impact of arousal, stress, and anxiety in sports and how to deal with it. You will learn about how good mental health can help with healing physical injuries. Along with sports psychology for both coaches and parents.

Sports and Exercise Psychology - Course assessment

This free online course teaches the fundamental concepts and theories in sports and Exercise psychology

Sports and Exercise Psychology

This course covers the fundamental ideas and classifications of the most common sports injuries. It includes studying how psychological elements impact sports, performance, exercise and physical activity. We explore the possibility of internal organ damage and the suitable treatment for these injuries. You will discover the importance of first aid, various sports injuries to the cartilage and what a sports therapist does to help people.

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