Professional Diploma in Women’s Football Performance

MODULE 1: Analysis of the training task
MODULE 2: Analysis of the training session
MODULE 3: Analysis of the training microcycle
MODULE 4: Analysis of the training mesocycle and of broad temporary training phases

MODULE 1: Characteristics of the musculoskeletal system.
Unit 1: Movement from the central nervous system.
Unit 2: Function of the skeletal muscles.

MODULE 2: Muscle action and its relationship to sports.
Unit 1: Types of muscle action.
Unit 2: Interrelationship of muscle action in movement and posture maintenance.

MODULE 3: Systemic changes in detraining and immobilisation.
Unit 1: Detraining in relation to the skeletal muscle.
Unit 2: Muscle hypertrophy.

MODULE 4: Assessment of muscular properties in relation to sport.
Unit 1: Surface electromyography.
Unit 2: Tensiomyography.

MODULE 1: Contextualization: how can we adapt strength training to team sports?
Unit 1: Strength and its relationship to the coordination and cognitive requirements of team sports.
Unit 2: Progression in the difficulty of the strength workload in relation to the specificity of the sport.

MODULE 2: Strength workload methodology in situation sports.
Unit 1: Strength training and the need to work with overload.
Unit 2: Integrating strength workload with the other capabilities.

MODULE 3: Integrating strength workload into planning and programming of situation sports.
Unit 1: Strength in the integrated training of long-term regular league class programming. Examples based on football.
Unit 2: Strength in the integrated training of blocks of preparation – competition programming. Examples based on tennis.

MODULE 4: Strength in the design of sports specific tasks. Examples based on football.
Unit 1: Small-sided games (SSG): characteristics for their design and the relationship with the development of sports ability.
Unit 2: SSG in relation to strength workload

MODULE 1: Analysis of injury in sports: injury mechanisms and associated risk factors.
Unit 1: Injury biomechanics and the implications of strength in the recovery of athletic skills.
Unit 2: Risk factors associated with lack of strength.

MODULE 2: Sports injuries and their relationship with the quality of strength.
Unit 1: Injuries in muscle and tendon structures.
Unit 2: Joint injuries.

MODULE 3: Strength manifestations and muscle power in the post-injury rehabilitation process.
Unit 1: Strength and its different manifestations according to external load and speed of execution.
Unit 2: Strength workload programming in sports injuries.

MODULE 4: New paradigms in strength training: muscle building through vascular occlusion.
Unit 1: Basis of traditional muscle building vs. muscle building through blood flow restriction (BFR).
Unit 2: Programming of training through blood flow restriction: key variables for optimal prescription.

1.1 Module 1: Force platform testing fundamentals
1.2 Module 2: CMJ understanding variables and phases
1.3 Module 3: Kinematics introduction
1.4 Module 4: Upper Limb Assessment

Module 1: Additional lower limb dynamic tests (squat jump, drop jump, squat, land &
hold).
3.2 Module 2: Lower Limb Isometric Tests
3.3 Module 3: A framework and toolbox for kinetics and kinematics in rehabilitation and
Return to Sport
3.4 Module 4: A framework and toolbox for short term load-response monitoring and
evaluating chronic adaptations

Module 1: Female Football Training Context and Evolution.
Module 2: Structured Microcycle.
Module 3: Structure Integration.
Module 4: Load Individualisation

Module 1: Female Strength Training Context and Evolution.
Module 2: Coadjuvat Training in Structured Microcycle.
Module 3: Variability-Specificity
Module 4: Strength Individualisation, Control and Evaluation

Module 1: Scientific Context
Module 2: Internal Load Monitoring
Module 3: External Load Monitoring.
Module 4: Test and Evaluation Mechanisms

Module 1: Female Footballer Physiology and Injury Risk.
Module 2: Injury prevention, recovery, and readaptation.
Module 3: Invisible Training: Nutrition and Rest.
Module 4: Psychology and sociological context.