The Elite Strength & Conditioning Course, ESnCE, is an eigth month program for you as an elite coach with the unique opportunity to visit four Elite Sport Centers in Europe.
You get the possibility to experience the unique sports environment and the methods used in four Sport Performance Centers across Europe namely Bosön in Sweden, Kuortane in Finland, INSEP in France and BASPO Magglingen in Switzerland. Up to date applied reserach in the field of sports science and a lot of hands-on practice on how to help your athlete/athletes succeed and reach their goals is also included. The course will also allow you to expand your network by meeting and interacting with elite Strength & Conditioning coaches from six countries.
Aim & Goal
The aim of the course is to foster networking and knowledge exchange among leading strength & conditioning course coaches in Europe. It aims to blend evicence-based practices, best practices and the valuable soft skills that come with experience.
The goal is to build a community with senior coaches to empower the individual as well as the participating countries. The beliefe is that we are stronger together and by practicing new capabilities, theory is transformes into new behaviours.
Background
The program started in 2020 as an Erasmus project co-funded by the European Union and it was awarded “Good Practice” award by the EU for its “high quality implementation and relevance”. A consortium of Sports Performance Centres, Sports confederation and Universities developed the program with the strong belief that sharing knowledge makes you stronger. The founding countries are France, Finland, Switzerland and Sweden.
The second course in 2023/24 continued with the four founding countries and two new countries namely Israel and Luxembourg that became partners.
The Course will give you
- Knowledge and understanding of the prerequisites that you will need to have to remain a modern, updated, successful and attractive coach.
- Self-reflection and deeper knowledge about your own behavior and its impact on your athlete/athletes and their behaviors.
- Qualified perspective and knowledge about strength & conditioning training and testing.
- Structured possibilities to compare and share experience with others with the same position as yourself in a unique network.
- You will learn to use tools in order to work long term and systematically embracing a life long learning approach.