Muscular Strength for Health and Performance

Education facts

Code: TB8007

The main content of the course is theoretical with integration of practical situations and cases. The course highlights how strength and power training can contribute to or lead to increased neuromuscular performance, such as increased strength and power, and how strength and power training can function as health promotion, disease prevention and rehabilitation intervention. Furthermore, relevant methods for evaluating strength and power training in these situations are included. The course is based on studies and discussions of the latest research in the subject of muscular strength for health and performance.

Entry requirements

Bachelor's degree within the main field of study in biomedicine, physiotherapy, sports science or equivalent, of which 15 credits anatomy and physiology, 7.5 credits exercise training and 15 credits scientific degree project. The degree must be equivalent to a Swedish kandidatexamen and must have been awarded from an internationally recognised university. English 6 or English level 2. Exemption of the requirement in Swedish is granted for those with foreign grades.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Muscular Strength for Health and Performance

  Halmstad University

  Halmstad

  Start date: 31 August 2026

  End date: 1 November 2026

  Pace of study: 50 %