Strength and Conditioning

newby.204

Hi, if this has been asked before, but does anyone know of any college or uni offering Strength and Conditioning? Any info on this would be greatly appreciated!!!

Hanley

newby.204 wrote: »

Hi, if this has been asked before, but does anyone know of any college or uni offering Strength and Conditioning? Any info on this would be greatly appreciated!!!

What do you mean by 'offereing'? Are you talking about colleges that teach it leading to a qualification of some sort? Or somewhere that'll coach you?

newby.204

getting qualified as in a degree etc sorry should of been clearer!!

KeithReilly

Google setanta college, the only strenghth and conditioning course offered in Ireland.

It's online with roughly one weekend a month in either Thurles or city west.

newby.204

that seems a bit "ropey", for want of a better word to me!! is it recognised, or certified by anyone?

Hanley

CSCS is the gold standard - sit those exams.

Sports science degree's another option.

with both it's all theory and zero actual coaching. If you want to get good, learn the theory, apply it under the tutelage of someone who knows what they're doing, learn, observe, refine.

metamorphosis

If you did a sports sci degree, there's a new masters in sports performance starting soon in UL (who also do sports sci degree) that you could do after the degree, and i think there will be a fair bit of emphasis on conditioning and strength.

the course in setanta is grand though. Depends on if you want to go to Uni i suppose

newby.204

don't necessarily want to go to uni, just don't want to waste my time with a course that isn't worth the paper its wrote on is all!!!

batmanandrobin

The Setanta College courses are HETAC recognised meaning they are more than worth the paper on which they're written. Dr. Liam Hennessy is over it and he's the top guy around the IRFU. It's a good programme, study at home and one weekend workshop every few weeks. I heard a rumour that there is going to be a full time course being set up in LIT with Setanta but I dont know how true it is. The only problem I would have with the Setanta set up is it costs 540 euro per module and for the degree there is something like 18 modules!

Barry.Oglesby

Try this:

1. Get the cheapest weekend course (not very much) money can buy, that is enough to get you insurance at some stage in the future.
2. Get yourself in with a coach who coaches actual athletes and teams and ask them if you can follow them around for a year and ask questions
3. Apprentice yourself to them either formally or informally.

Learn by doing like all the good coaches have done.

BlueIsland

Hanley wrote: »

CSCS is the gold standard - sit those exams.

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Any links for going about how to go about this?

Inspector Coptoor

I did the RTWTS with setanta.
6 month course.
was ok, dont think it was really worth the 1000 euro or so I ended up paying for everything but its not a bad bit of paper to have.

Apart from that, yeah, i agree with Hanley and Barry, you learn by doing and by asking questions and by training yourself (to a lesser extent)

BlueIsland

Does anybody know of any summer courses in Personal training or strenght and conditioning??

SanoVitae

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

Try this:

1. Get the cheapest weekend course (not very much) money can buy, that is enough to get you insurance at some stage in the future.
2. Get yourself in with a coach who coaches actual athletes and teams and ask them if you can follow them around for a year and ask questions
3. Apprentice yourself to them either formally or informally.

Learn by doing like all the good coaches have done.

That's pretty much word-for-word what I've been telling Hanley to do!

Banks

BlueIsland wrote: »

Hanley wrote: »

CSCS is the gold standard - sit those exams.

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Any links for going about how to go about this?

You need a Degree to sit the CSCS exam as far as I know, UKSCA is another avenue. Its the gold standard if you want to work in the UK even if u are CSCS certified.

Here is the link: http://www.nsca-cc.org/cscs/

Hanley

Banks wrote: »

BlueIsland wrote: »

You need a Degree to sit the CSCS exam as far as I know, UKSCA is another avenue. Its the gold standard if you want to work in the UK even if u are CSCS certified.

Here is the link: http://www.nsca-cc.org/cscs/

Yeah, CSCS requires a degree of some sort, not neccessarily related to health and fitness.

Dathai

newby.204 wrote: »

don't necessarily want to go to uni, just don't want to waste my time with a course that isn't worth the paper its wrote on is all!!!

I wouldn't dismiss a sports science degree so quickly. At the end of the day if you want to be a coach, just like any other professional, a good theoretical background is key. Understanding the science behind what your doing is a always a good thing. Plus, it will look excellent to prospective clients. Obviously experience is going to be a factor here, but you will obviously gain that along the way one way or another.

I know people that have completed their degrees in DCU and loved it http://www.dcu.ie/shhp/welcome.shtml

WeeBushy

If you decide to go down the degree route UCD have a 3 year Health & Performance Science BSc degree:

https://myucd.ucd.ie/program.do?programID=30

Hammar

University of Edinburgh do a MSc in Strength and Conditioning.
DCU do a BSc in Sports Science and Health
UL and UCD have very good courses aswell as other posters have explained to you.

newby.204

cheers for all the info lads

B.K strength and conditioning

best result for this i think personally is to get to america and do a course takes less time to complete and will save you some cash. my boss is currently doing his batcholers degree in DCU. he really nos his stuff. here is a link for most of the courses available in Ireland
http://www.ncefinfo.com/fitness_instructor.html

g'em

B.K strength and conditioning wrote: »

best result for this i think personally is to get to america and do a course takes less time to complete and will save you some cash. my boss is currently doing his batcholers degree in DCU. he really nos his stuff. here is a link for most of the courses available in Ireland
http://www.ncefinfo.com/fitness_instructor.html

If he's reading this I'd also suggest sending his staff for remedial spelling lessons.

Begone, shillster.