FTScotland are excited to be working with UKSCA licensed partner Your Gym Sports Performance Ltd, bringing the UKSCA S&C Trainer Diploma to Scotland.
Our course aims to provide aspiring coaches, sports coaches and PE teachers with a further foundational knowledge of strength and conditioning and evidence-based practice. The theoretical and practical knowledge gained upon completion of the course ensures our graduates have a greater understanding of the performance training process in its entirety, allowing evidence-based S&C to be applied within real world practice. Our course is delivered over six practical workshop days, in conjunction with a case study and reflective practice distance learning process, completed via our online learning platform. Upon successful completion, learners will gain a UKSCA L3 S&C Trainer Diploma, UKSCA Membership and lifetime access to multiple additional learning short courses and resources, therefore ensuring a continuation of learning and professional development.
Payment Options:
The UKSCA S&C Trainer Diploma costs £1200. This can either be paid for in full, within 30 days (via Klarna) or via three monthly instalments of £400 (via Klarna).
Prior Learning Lectures : Prior to attending the first set of practical dates, coaches are provided with access to six prior learning lectures exploring strength training, plyometric training, Olympic weightlifting, speed and agility and youth athletic development. Each of these learners are approx 30 mins in length.
Weekend One : This weekend will focus on foundational movement and Long term athletic development (LTAD), the training methodology which underpins youth athletic development and physical literacy including speed and agility, plyometrics, bilateral and unilateral squat squat progressions, hinge patterns, vertical / horizontal push and pull patterns, lumbopelvic control, performance specific RAMP warm ups and the fundamental principles of athletic performance training.
Weekend Two : This weekend will focus on strength training, progressing the previously explored LTAD and physical literacy movement patterns to their loaded equivalents, including loaded bilateral squats (front / back / overhead squats) hinge patterns (deadlift variations and pulls) vertical and horizontal pushes (push presses, overhead presses, powerlifting bench press (vertical and horizontal pulls (Pendley rows, bentover rows) explosive rotational ballistic training (med ball throw variations) and advanced transfer of training effect strength training methodology.
Weekend Three : This final weekend will firstly include the required foundational movement and strength-based training summative practical assessments, followed by our one-day Olympic weightlifting workshop, introducing practitioners to the Olympic lifts, their performance training benefits and their applications within S&C. Coaches are introduced to the snatch, clean and jerk classic lifts and their derivatives (e.g. hang and power variations, etc.) using a reverse engineering coaching process, with the final aim being that coaches understand the key principles of each lift, how to implement the lifts within performance programming and how to develop their own Olympic weightlifting competency.
Course Dates
Weekend one – 21st / 22nd Feb 2026
Weekend two – 11th / 12th April 2026
Weekend three – 2nd / 3rd May 2026
Course Location: Perth
Practical Assessments – Coaches are required to pass two practical coaching assessments including a foundational movement assessment and a strength-based training assessment. The foundational movement assessment includes a RAMP warm up and the correct coaching of speed and agility and plyometric training to a group of three coaches. The strength-based training assessment requires coaches to demonstrate strength-based training competency.
Case Study : Beyond the completion of the course practical days, coaches are provided with access to online learning modules that guide them through the completion of a real world case study with an athlete participant. This includes the completion of an athlete analysis, sport analysis (biomechanical, physiological and injury analysis), performance testing battery, periodised annual macro-cycle, a detailed 12 week meso-cycle and athlete evaluation.
Viva Presentation Assessment : Beyond the completion of this case study, coaches are required to prepare a 10 min presentation that outlines their case study, provides justification on their programming decisions and details their reflections from the performance case study process.
As this is a UKSCA S&C entry level qualification, their are no prior learning requirements.
The UKSCA S&C Trainer Diploma is worth 10 CIMSPA CPD points and 8 UCAS points.
Furthermore, upon completion, the learners become UKSCA Accredited Strength and Conditioning Trainers and can add the title ASCT to their name.
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Learner Enquiries: 07881 362 208
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