This unique certificate has been designed to help you further your knowledge and gain an understanding of how conditioning, nutritional, psychological, and physiological aspects contribute to the development of young players and can be utilised in combination with specific training principles and techniques.
During this course, you will receive lessons taught by world-class, respected practitioners and academics from the game. You will study topics such as elite youth profiling and professional successes; the growth, maturation, and impact of youth player conditioning; windows of opportunity and age-related effects of training; and how nutritional support can have a positive impact on youth players.
What next?
Upon successful completion of this course, you could enrol on another one of our fitness and sports courses and enhance your skills and knowledge even further. You will be one step closer to working in football, but here are a few job roles that use the knowledge learned during the Certificate in Youth Soccer Athletic Development LTAD course:
- Youth soccer coach
- Soccer performance specialist
- Athletic development coordinator
- Youth sports trainer
- Sports conditioning coach
You will have six months to complete this course.
On successful completion, you will be awarded a Certificate in Youth Soccer Athletic Development.
There are no pre-requisites to study this course.
You will be assessed through eight individual tasks based on the course modules.