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Sports Science and health(opinions please!!)

  • 17-05-2008 9:08pm
    #1
    lobsterstag
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    hi!! just wondering if anyone doing this course is lurking round these parts and if you could fill me in on if you're enjoying it and just your general feelings on it?? im doing the leaving in a few weeks and im torn between this and a few other courses!! thanks!:D:D:p:cool:


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  • #2
    figs86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭figs86


    hey man im in 2nd year SSH (sports science and health)

    i had planned on doing medicine or physio but didnt get the points and this was my fallback

    i love it!

    its very interesting, you get to talk sport pretty much all day both in lectures and out

    first year is mildly sciencey with anatomy, physiology, physics, etc - you can find all modules and the descriptions on DCU website

    class is relatively small with only 50 of us but we're often mixed in with older years, nurses and Athletic Therapy and Training

    very diverse bunch of people - a few guys over 30 and one girl who was 16 when we started last year

    good mix of sports with a few GAA players, rugby players, runners, martial artists, tennis players, soccer and couple of top end athletes (e.g. boxer Darren Sutherland who recently qualified for the Olympics)

    the course has a good amount of practical work with labs to complete in psychology (e.g. methods for improving performance - last one i did was comparing someone on an exercise bike using a distraction method and one who focused on their exercise to compare the results)
    physiology (vo2max and blood lactate labs)
    health and fitness (weightlifting, aerobics instruction)

    any other questions just ask


  • #3
    lobsterstag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭lobsterstag


    Thanks a million man, great help!...that practical experiment sounds really interesting!! im very into sports, i play football and used to play rugby, tennis etc and im a big fan of biology in school and it seems like a cool course...only drawback is it's a bit far from my house, ucd and trinity would be a good deal closer so i was just think of doing a general science degree in one of those!! realisticly it would only be a half hour cycle but still.....every day!!

    anyway thanks again for the help!!:D:D:D:D:D


  • #4
    figs86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭figs86


    you wouldnt be alone in your travels,

    2 guys coming from terenure, one from mount merrion avenue past UCD and trinners everyday, one guy coming from maynooth,

    they all think its worth it!

    check out the health and human performance degree in UCD - its new, only started this year but i think its a similar course


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