Required and Optional
Courses
Required Courses
Diploma Practicum
NCI coaches work within the high performance stream
with athletes on a regular basis. A workbook is used
to record observations and critical reflections. Tutorials
are conducted with the Master Coach(es) to review their
approach to athlete preparation, training, and competition.
The NCI coach is expected to assume responsibility for
the preparation of athletes.
Energy Systems
Understand the energy demands of your sport, methods
to train and increase the power and capacity of the
energy systems; control of intensity; sequencing of
training; and tapering for peak performance.
Physical Preparation
Learn teaching progressions for strength, flexibility,
and agility exercises; how to manipulate loading parameters.
Nutrition
Develop nutritional strategies for training and competition;
develop a nutritional plan and become familiar with
a variety of sport nutrition topics such as hydration,
supplements, nutrition during travel, weight control,
and eating disorders.
Recovery and Regeneration
Understand the causes of fatigue and select appropriate
recovery modalities; understand injuries and the mechanisms
for healing and recovery as part of the normal training
process; nonadaptive responses to training/stress.
Mental Preparation for Coaches
Analyse coaching interventions; deal with conflict in
elite athletes and practise effective communication;
psychological implications of injuries in elite athletes
and strategies of intervention.
Mental Preparation for Athletes
Identify the mental training needs of athletes; help
them refine a variety of mental imagery skills and learn
how to cope with distractions; integrate and sequence
mental training activities within the yearly plan.
Program Design
The systematic integration and sequencing of training
and competition activities within a comprehensive sport
program; planning and periodization models; major and
minor peaks to produce optimal athletic performance;
volume and intensity of training; recovery.
Athlete Long-Term Development
Discuss how athletes should progress in sport from childhood
on; skill acquisition leading to specialized skill development;
talent identification; sport-specific long-term planning.
Leadership and Ethics
An intense learning experience to help you initiate
and support positive changes in your work environment,
with an emphasis on values clarification, critical thinking,
communication skills, leadership practices, and group
dynamics.
Course work is also required in the following
areas:
- Coach Effectiveness
- Coaching Philosophy
- New Technologies
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