MSC Strength and Conditioning Coaching at Sheffield Hallam University

• Gain real-world knowledge of strength and conditioning through applied experiences, live coaching and placements.
• Develop your coaching skills and expertise through pedagogical and experiential learning.
• Understand the scientific principles underpinning successful strength and conditioning.
• Critically reflect upon and develop your technical, problem-solving and interpersonal skills as an advanced practitioner.

Strength and Conditioning practitioners must employ a wide range of underpinning knowledge, practical skills and applied techniques to meet the requirements of such a highly specialised role. This course will equip and challenge you to evaluate the physical elements of sport performance, develop tailored strength and conditioning interventions, monitor and evaluate training as well as developing your practical coaching skills through experiential learning.

Employers emphasise the importance of coaching skills and the ability to deliver them in many different settings. This course provides you with the opportunity to become career-ready from both a theoretical, scientific standpoint as well as a pedagogical, coaching perspective.

Live Projects

This course has been designed to situate you in real-world learning environments, to give you the opportunity to undertake work with real athletes as part of your programme of study. This gives you the opportunity to develop your knowledge, skills and understanding in the applied setting, to develop your skills and confidence as a practitioner in the field. 

Work Placements

You will have the opportunity to arrange and undertake a work placement as part of an extended body of work that you complete to obtain the MSc award. This gives you real-world experience to prepare you for your future career, and is an opportunity to undertake an extended piece of work to improve practice in the applied setting.  Our students have worked in professional clubs and teams, and even chosen to undertake placements abroad in sporting organisations around the world.

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• strength and conditioning coaching
• applied sports science
• research
• academia

Previous graduates have gone on to work for

• the English Institute of Sport, for Governing Bodies such as GB Boxing
• professional sports teams such as Sunderland FC, Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday
• higher education institutes such as Leeds University and Derby University
• themselves, as self-employed coaches in business