Sports Performance and Coaching

About this course

Sports performance and coaching is a degree that brings together the science of human performance and the art and skill of coaching athletes and teams towards their goals. Understanding what makes athletes perform at their best requires knowledge of exercise physiology, biomechanics, sport psychology, and nutrition, as well as an appreciation of how these dimensions interact in the complex reality of training and competition. Coaching adds a practical and interpersonal dimension, concerned with how athletes develop their skills and capabilities over time, how teams are built and managed, how performance is planned and monitored, and how the coach-athlete relationship is built and sustained effectively. At the University of Essex, you will study sports performance and coaching over three years of full-time study. The curriculum covers the physiological foundations of human performance, i

Where its graduates go

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