Sustaining Your Endurance Training
Understand sports psychology, sports science, and best practices in endurance coaching to guarantee the longevity of your training, with this online course from Federation University Australia.
Duration
2 weeks
Weekly study
2 hours
100% online
How it works
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Course 3 of 3
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Established
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Location
Ballarat, Berwick, Gippsland, Wimmera
Train sustainably with Federation University Australia
Effective goal-setting won’t guarantee the longevity of your endurance training. To keep progressing in the long term, you’ll need to develop strategies for mental resilience and coaching.
In this final of three courses from Federation University Australia, you’ll delve into sports psychology, sports science, and coaching practice, to lay the groundwork for future endurance training.
Learn the fundamentals of sports psychology to build your mental resilience
Mental resilience and a positive mindset are an essential part of endurance training.
You’ll start the course with an introduction to the fundamentals of sports psychology, exploring its links to physiology and anatomy in sport. You’ll learn how to stay motivated, manage pain, and cope with stress and fatigue.
Understand best practices in endurance coaching
With your expertise in endurance training, you may want to work on coaching others. In Week 2 of the course, you’ll consider the latest developments in coaching practice, and learn how training plans can be tailored to the needs of different audiences.
You’ll finish the course with the expertise you need to continue your endurance training, while helping others to train sustainably too.
Week 1
Sports psychology for the endurance athlete
Sporting Psychology
Welcome to Sports psychology for the endurance athlete. Throughout this course, you will identify the psychology associated with an athlete's training program and how factors such as stress and fatigue can be managed.
Endurance training factors
Endurance training is physically, mentally and emotionally taxing. In order to maintain motivation and push through fatigue, effective strategies must be employed to mitigate these factors.
Bringing it all together
By understanding the factors involved in endurance training, athletes and coaches are better prepared and positioned to manage these factors. Employing strategies and practices to mitigate these risks is essential.
Week 2
Long-term developments for the young & old
How well do you know your athletes
A coach holds the trust of those under their care. This trust must be maintained through providing care to their athletes. This week, we look at how different approaches and understanding of athletes are required.
Knowing your audience
Each athlete is an individual with their own needs, ambitions and physical history. As a coach, especially one working with youth athletes, it is up to you to identify your athletes needs and requirements.
Bringing it all together
In order to effectively coach athletes, you must identify their needs and implement effective strategies to manage their progress and mitigate the risks.
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