Sports and Exercise Science (Health and Fitness)

Course details

This course is a course. It requires attendance five days a week. There will be a two week work experience block each year. Students are given extensive training in all aspects of the health and fitness industry, with an emphasis on Fitness Testing, Personal Training and Lifestyle Coaching. Students will learn how to coach various sports, how to test individuals fitness, design and prescribe gym fitness programmes. Students will visit and experience a range of leisure complexes and gyms.

Course Content

Year One

• Sport and Leisure Industry
• Sport and Exercise Psychology
• Nutrition for Sport and Exercise
• Field Based Testing
• Lifestyle and Wellbeing
• Health Promotion
• Applied Coaching
• Employment Law

Year Two

• Training and Fitness for Sport and Exercise
• Anatomy and Physiology
• Work Based Experience
• Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology
• Injury Prevention and Treatment in Sport and Exercise
• Managing Sports Development.
• Design and Operation in Sports and Leisure Management

Course content may be revised for educational or organisational reasons.

Additional Certification

Students are provided with the opportunity to receive certification from the following Awarding Bodies:

• Occupational First Aid Award
• N.C.E.F (National Certificate in Exercise and Fitness) University of Limerick
• FAI Soccer Kickstart 1 & 2
• Youth Cert
• Volleyball Coaching
• Candidates should be highly motivated with a desire to be self employed as a personal trainer or life coach or to move on to further education in sports science or as a PE teacher. Candidates should have good communication skills.

Progression and Career Prospects

Graduates of this course will have a range of options to choose from. The NCEF qualification enables graduates to work in a gym as an aerobics instructor, to work as a life coach, nutrition advisor, personal trainer, Soccer coach, Spike Ball coach.

Students could also go on to further study in a range of different areas - Sports nutrition, sports rehabilitation, Physio-therapy, sports science or P.E. teaching. Inchicore College has well established links with colleges in Ireland and in the UK.