HL32022: Advanced sports physiology
[Page last updated: 22 April 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department for Health |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 50%, CWOI 50% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Essay (CWES 50%)
- Oral presentation Individual (CWOI 50%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take HL22019 OR take HL22021
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Describe a range of contemporary sports performance training practices (e.g. endurance training, altitude training, use of recovery methods).
- Explain the underpinning sports physiology that supports the use of a range of training practices.
- Analyse and critically appraise the research evidence around the effectiveness of specific training practices.
- Apply knowledge of sports physiology to the challenges faced by coaches and practitioners working with specific populations of athletes (e.g. asthmatic athletes, child athletes, female athletes).
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| Synopsis: | "Develop key conceptual knowledge in advanced sports physiology.
You will investigate contemporary challenges and applied practices used in a sports performance context. "
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| Content: | Human anatomy and physiology; Sports Physiology; Sports Nutrition; Endurance training; Speed and power training; Altitude training; Recovery methods; Special populations.
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| Course availability: |
HL32022 is Optional on the following courses:
Department for Health
- UHHL-AFB30 : BSc(Hons) Sport (Sports Performance) (Year 1)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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