Sport Science: Strength and Conditioning

Strength and conditioning is a key component of every athlete’s training regime. Home to the Weightlifting Wales National Performance Centre, Bangor is ideally placed to provide real-world experience in strength and conditioning. You’ll have access to the 470 square metre Platform 81 Performance Training Centre, our World Rugby and FIFA standard 3G artificial pitch and state-of-the-art sport science laboratories. You’ll gain a modern theoretical knowledge of sport science, strength and conditioning and develop practitioner skills.

Successful strength and conditioning practitioners require a varied toolbox of skills including scientific knowledge, practical expertise and coaching experience. The Sport Science, Strength and Conditioning degree at Bangor University directly addresses all of these requirements to kickstart your career. You’ll cover the core areas of sport science including, psychology, physiology, anatomy and biomechanics and combine this with contemporary strength and conditioning theory and practice as well as topics from the field of sport coaching such as talent development and skill learning.

Alongside the theory, you'll gain hands-on experience of strength and conditioning in our state of the art indoor and outdoors facilities, as well as additional practical experience in our extensive sport science laboratories. We also offer work placement options so that you can bring these newfound skills to life. Together these experiences you’ll develop the skillset needed by the modern, forward thinking strength and conditioning or sport science practitioner. You’ll be taught by staff with extensive experience as applied practitioners and who are recognised internationally for their cutting-edge scientific research. North Wales offers a stunning natural environment for your studies, and our department, which was established in 1978, is proud to call itself one of the original and longest serving Sport and Exercise Science providers in the world.

A Levels or International Baccalaureate - see course pages for specific entry requirements.

Mature students will be considered on a case by case basis.

Entry into Year 2 will be considered for students with a HND or at least one year of study at a University overseas or in the UK.

If you do not meet our requirements then we will consider you for entry onto the International Year Zero.
 

IELTS 6.0 (5.5) or equivalent. Some courses have higher English Language Requirements.

For students educated in English or from an English speaking country we may be able to waive the requirement, if you can provide evidence that you achieved a minimum of a C or equivalent in your high school English (higher for some courses) or a letter from your University confirming your bachelor degree was taught in English.