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Originally Posted by Alan Attack
Fitness coach?
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This type of role usually combines sports science/nutrition with strength, conditioning and fitness coaching.
His sports science role at Cardiff entailed the following:
'Assisting with physiological monitoring of 1st Team and Development squad. Duties include monitoring training load, training status, fatigue and injury risk using GPS and producing a daily report of these findings. Delivery of outcome-specific warm ups for 1st team and development squads. Assisting in prehabilitation/activation, corrective exercise and injury prevention sessions to optimize performance. Assisting with pitch-based training sessions. Implementing pre and post-training nutritional strategies and post-training recovery methods. Also assist on match-day preparation and post-match recovery strategies. Other duties include daily monitoring of players' weight, wellbeing hydration and immunity via IgA testing.. Experience of Polar Team1 and Team2 software packages and fitness testing.'