Enhancing Sporting Performance
This exciting programme, designed for athletes of all levels and students studying sport, is taught by experts in the University of Waikato's Faculty of Health, Sport, and Human Performance. The rugby option is taught in conjunction with the Chiefs Super Rugby Team, where students will train alongside the team and learn from expert coaches!
Delivered through hands-on learning in the classroom, labs, modern gym, and trips to local sports organisations, students will develop knowledge in nutrition, recovery practices, physiology and prescription, strength and conditioning, coaching, performance analysis, and biomechanics.
While studying at Waikato, athletes will have the opportunity to continue with their sport, practicing with local teams in the evenings and competing on the weekends. Students will have access to state-of-the-art high performance training centres where researchers work with elite teams, including New Zealand Cycling and New Zealand Sevens rugby, to reach peak athletic performance.
Course: HSHUP200
Enhancing Sporting Performance
Credit: 15 points (3-4 US credits)
Dates: June 7 - July 3, 2020 (4 weeks)
What's included:
- Tuition for one course
- Individually placed with a competitive local sports team
- Housing
- All meals
- Airport pickup
- Gym membership
- Insurance
- Official transcript
- Trips and excursions, including:
- The University of Waikato Adams Centre for High Performance, including the Environmental Chamber
- AvantiDrome cycling experience and the University of Waikato Programmes & Lab Testing
- Noho Marae (overnight stay at a Marae)
- Day trips to nearby local towns including Rotorua and Raglan.
Chiefs Rugby High Performance Package
Train with world class athletes in world class facilities while being coached by some of the best in the industry! This awesome package is open to both male and female rugby players.
The Chiefs Rugby Club have over 30 full-time staff who are experts in their field of rugby psychology, nutrition, strength and conditioning, and video analysis. |
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Enhance your sporting performance by training with the best! Out of the current NZ Super Clubs, The Gallagher Chiefs have the record for most Super rugby playoff appearances in a row (7) and have 12 current or former All Blacks in our 2019 squad.
#BeLegendary and join them today!
Note there is an additional cost to adding this experience.
On top of the Enhancing Sporting Performance Programme, you will get:
- Traditional Maori Powhiri (welcome) onto Chiefs territory
- Initial testing
- Behind the scenes Gallagher Chiefs experience - training with and alongside the team
- IPPs and action plan documents provided to players and coaches
- Access to the Gallagher Chiefs gymnasium for 2 sessions a week (8 total)
- Connection to a Hamilton Rugby club
- Personalised positional training programmes
- Tailored strength and conditioning programmes
- 1 x mental skills session a week with the Gallagher Chiefs Psychologist
- 1 x nutritional education a week with the Gallagher Chiefs Nutritionist
- Skills sessions with the Gallagher Chiefs attack coach
- Behind the scenes experiences at game days during Super Rugby season*
- Video analysis training with Chiefs staff
- 2 x Chiefs training tee
- Certificate of completion
*Dependent on the Chiefs having a home playoff match
