BSc (Hons)Strength and Conditioning

Core modules

Adaptive Coaching for Inclusive Strength and Conditioning

This module will encourage you to analyse and adapt your coaching skills to suit your coaching environment and context. You will consider the needs of specialist populations and your use of a variety of skills to promote inclusion including: strategic planning; instruction and demonstration; practice; observation and feedback; emotional intelligence; cognitive strategies and reflective practice.

Coaching Speed and Agility

This module covers the technical and physical demands of speed, agility, and plyometrics across a range of sporting contexts. You will examine the biomechanics and neuromuscular control underpinning sprinting, deceleration, and jump-landing tasks, with an emphasis on acceleration, top-end speed, change of direction, and reactive agility.

Planning and Monitoring Athletic Programmes

With athletes and employers demanding evidence-based, individualised interventions, this module will equips you with the knowledge and practical tools to critically explore periodisation strategies, testing protocols, and monitoring techniques through applied case studies. You will examine approaches towards the planning, periodization, testing and monitoring of human performance.

Advanced Exercise Selections

Moving beyond standard programming, this module focuses on the rationale behind selecting and modifying exercise based on an athlete’s individual needs, abilities, goals, sport demands, and training phase. You will explore biomechanical, physiological, and contextual factors that influence exercise selection, developing the critical thinking and practical skills necessary to design and implement effective, athlete-specific training interventions.

Youth Strength and Conditioning

Before an athlete can break an Olympic record, win a cup final or become a world champion they must undertake years of training from a young age. While it is impossible for every young sports person to become an international champion, every young athlete deserves the opportunity to reach their full potential. This module will encourage you to analyse and adapt your methods and approach to S&C coaching, by providing you with the tools and understanding to design and deliver sessions that aim to maximise the sporting potential of young athletes.

Applied Research Methods In Sport, Health And Exercise Science

This module aims to provide you with the essential skills required for conducting academic research. Building upon the foundation established at level 4, you will develop knowledge and understanding of the art and science of academic inquiry. You will learn how to formulate clear and objective research questions that target discipline-specific problems or issues. This will be achieved through the exploration of academic literature, which will help to develop your understanding of the existing subject-knowledge.

Core modules

Applied Strength and Conditioning

This module will provide the opportunity to develop your confidence and coaching skills whilst applying your knowledge and understanding of sports-specific physical development. Using appropriate techniques learned within the module, you will have the ability to improve an athletes’ performance through a co-ordinated use of technology and gym-based equipment to plan, prepare and monitor performance.

Sports Nutrition

The importance of good nutrition and hydration in sports has grown in popularity in recent years. The significance of a healthy balanced diet and its links to good health and improved sports performance is now a key aspect of the sportsperson’s lifestyle; whether they are an elite athlete preparing for World championships or Olympic events, a semi-professional competitor aiming to continue performing or amateur participants who just want to improve their chances of winning and overall health.

Individual Project

With increasing numbers of candidates enrolling on undergraduate degree programmes, today’s graduate job market has swelled and employers are increasingly asking for more than just an undergraduate degree to differentiate between applicants. Students who have undertaken a major independent investigation as part of their studies are often looked on more favourably by employers. This module is all about encouraging you to utilise all of the skills that you have developed throughout the course of your programme of study. Students will have the opportunity to either produce an independent research project, or to carry out a significant work placement with an organisation which relates to your course and study area.

Sports Injury And Return To Play

Understanding how sports injuries occur and how to support a team to facilitate safe, effective return-to-play strategies is essential for anyone working in performance or coaching environments. This module introduces you to the causes, classifications, and mechanisms of common sports injuries, as well as the research behind potential injury risk reduction strategies.

Professional Practice In Strength And Conditioning

In a highly competitive field of Strength and Conditioning, technical knowledge alone is not enough — standing out requires a blend of professional insight, reflective practice, and industry-ready skills. Building on the knowledge, skills and experience acquired throughout the degree, this module prepares you to meet these challenges by critically examining what it means to be an expert coach, understanding the demands of the profession, and navigating key industry standards and accreditations.