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The UAX Rafa Nadal University School's Master's Degree in Sports Performance and Injury Prevention is the result of an exceptional alliance: the prestigious UAX academic team, the professionals who have accompanied Rafa Nadal on his path to the elite of world sport, and the medical support of Quirónsalud come together to offer you a unique, differential and 100% excellence-oriented programme. Discover its main keys below:
Why study at the Escuela Universitaria UAX Rafa Nadal?
You will work on a day-to-day basis with the latest technology in high performance sports, which will give you a competitive advantage in the sector:
National Award in Fitness Industry on two occasions and Director of the Master's Degree at the UAX Rafa Nadal University School, he explains how you can specialise in the world of high performance sport, from a technological point of view, to prevent and improve injury recovery processes and seek to optimise performance.
El Máster Universitario en Rendimiento Deportivo y Prevención de Lesiones está dirigido a licenciados, diplomados o graduados en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte, o Magisterio de Educación Física, con necesidad de especialización para optar a puestos relevantes dentro de la industria deportiva y de la salud o bien con motivación para mejorar su posición laboral dentro de un club, federación o empresa vinculada al deporte, así como profesionales que quieren especializarse en la rama de salud y prevención de lesiones.
Unlike a master's degree in personal training, here you will also learn aspects such as psychology, the context of high-level sport, personalised planning for competition and a global vision of the factors that determine an athlete's performance.
1. You will create programmes to improve basic and specific and individualised physical capacities according to the sporting modality and the different phases of the season.
2. You will be able to evaluate the risks of certain types of training in relation to their benefits in order to be able to adapt each task based on the search for maximum sporting performance.
3. You will learn to analyse in a high-level sporting context the different aspects that affect physical performance, also taking into account the psychological and psychosocial aspects of sport and the athlete.
4. You will specialise in the use of the latest technology to carry out physical and physical condition assessments in the field of performance and health prevention in order to avoid injuries, improve recovery processes and increase the athlete's performance.
5. You will design sports rehabilitation programmes to achieve the most effective possible return to competition for athletes who have overcome an injury.
Con el Máster Universitario en Rendimiento Deportivo y Prevención de Lesiones aprenderás a ser capaz de desarrollar el máximo potencial de rendimiento, mejorando los procesos de recuperación del deportista, cuidando su salud y previniendo lesiones. Estarás cualificado para perfeccionar una práctica basada en la evidencia.
Máster Universitario en Rendimiento Deportivo y Prevención de Lesiones
Primer Curso
PRIMER CUATRIMESTRE
| Code | Subjects | Character* | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|
| M132400 | Metodología del entrenamiento y mejora rendimiento deportivo | OB | 6 |
| M132401 | Fisiología del deporte y su aplicación al entrenamiento y la readaptación funcional | OB | 6 |
| M132402 | Disminución del riesgo lesional y readaptación funcional y deportiva | OB | 6 |
| M132403 | Programación del entrenamiento para la optimización del rendimiento deportivo (I) | OB | 6 |
| M132404 | Análisis de datos y tecnología prevención de lesiones y al rendimiento deportivo | OB | 6 |
| TOTAL: | 30 | ||
SEGUNDO CUATRIMESTRE
| Code | Subjects | Character* | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|
| M132405 | Programación del entrenamiento para la optimización del rendimiento deportivo (II) | OB | 6 |
| M132406 | Dirección de programas de ejercicio físico y salud | OB | 6 |
| M132407 | Ciencias de apoyo en el rendimiento y prevención de lesiones | OB | 6 |
| M132408 | Prácticas académicas externas | OB | 6 |
| M132409 | Trabajo Fin de Máster | OB | 6 |
| TOTAL: | 30 | ||
*Character: BT: Basic Training, Ob: Required, Op: Optional
During your study programme, you'll have exclusive online training content that Rafa Nadal himself and his entire team have worked on, sharing their experiences and revealing the secrets that have led him to success: Toni Nadal, Carlos Moyá, Ángel Ruiz Cotorro, Rafael Maymó, Carlos Costa, Benito Pérez-Barbadillo, Gemma Bes and Maribel Nadal.
You'll access unique content that will help you hone the qualities today's job market demands: effort, cooperation, empathy, leadership, professional ethics, responsibility and commitment, humility and confidence, resilience, discipline, and hard work.
En la Escuela Universitaria UAX Rafa Nadal contamos con más de 25 instalaciones equipadas con la última tecnología y preparadas para cubrir todo tipo de modalidades deportivas con pistas de fútbol, baloncesto, atletismo, rugby, tenis, padel y próximamente con un nuevo y flamante polideportivo.
En la Escuela Universitaria UAX Rafa Nadal nos preocupamos por poner a disposición de los estudiantes el mejor entorno posible de aprendizaje con el fin de ser un referente nacional e internacional.
In collaboration with the business platform for the sports industry benchmark, you will have exclusive access to the 'Sports Observatory, by 2 Playbook'. A digital space in which you will participate to acquire certain skills and knowledge by which you will be evaluated on debates related to current affairs and the module you are studying at any given time.
In this way, you will have an additional learning space to the classroom itself, having access to exclusive articles and reports of interest that will complement the syllabus of each subject.
In addition, from the moment you enroll, you will have an annual subscription to 2Playbook Club where you will be part of the next generation of sports professionals, with access to premium content, tickets for events and the most important network of contacts in the sports industry: sports clubs, fitness & wellbeing chains, high performance centers, etc.
Staff of top working professionals
Thanks to agreements with leading sports and health institutions, you will have access to professional internships that will allow you to apply your knowledge in real contexts, expand your network of contacts and make the leap into the world of work with guarantees.
We train professionals with experts who are already transforming the health and sports fields, with the UAX DNA and Rafa Nadal's work model.
We are not telling you this, but those who have already experienced it. They have lived it from the inside. Now they tell it to you in first person.
Train and learn in a unique environment, with more than 1,000 m² dedicated to sport and divided into 25 specialised spaces for practising up to 20 disciplines. Access the UAX Fitness Center, equipped with more than 100 state-of-the-art machines, and train in the sports science research unit, where technology and innovation are integrated to prepare you as a professional in sports performance and injury prevention.
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