Concordia University Chicago announces a webinar series, Return to Play: Strategies for Athletes to Retrain Without Injury, on how to get competition-ready in a post-pandemic world.
Concordia University Chicago has announced a new webinar series called Return to Play: Strategies for Athletes to Retrain and Recondition Without Injury. The series will be hosted in partnership with Concordia University St. Paul and St. Francis College Brooklyn.
For more information, visit https://www.returntoplayseries.com and https://exsci.cuchicago.edu/summer-webinar-series-strategies-for-athletes-to-retrain-and-recondition-without-injury/.
This series will help coaches, trainers and athletes access expert guidance on how athletes can get competition-ready and safely return to peak performance in a post-pandemic world. The webinars will be presented from July 15 to August 19, 2021.
Concordia University of Chicago is a leading university in sport and exercise science in the United States. The new webinar series will include talks given by Concordia-Chicago faculty and graduate students. Speakers include experts on topics such as athletic training and conditioning, high performance coaching, and sports nutrition.
The Return to Play webinar series will teach coaches, athletes and trainers scientific, research-based strategies that they can use to safely return athletes to their pre-pandemic levels of performance. The talks will discuss testing for body recomposition, goal setting for retraining, reconditioning for competition, and more.
The webinars will place particular emphasis on avoiding injury when returning to sport after living a sedentary lifestyle during the pandemic. The series also includes a roundtable called Nutrition Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Facilitate Healing.
Other Return to Play webinars will cover the importance of movement for an aging population and paying attention to mental health while getting back into shape. These lectures can provide aspiring athletes with helpful tips and encouragement while starting a fitness routine.
Prospective participants can register for individual webinars or the entire series on the Return to Play webpage or the Concordia-Chicago exercise science website. The webinars will be held through Zoom. Recordings will be available after each event.
This series is aligned with the university’s commitment to providing professional, collegiate, high school and amateur athletes, coaches and trainers with expert information that will help them transform their careers, their athletes, and themselves.
Find out more about the lecture series by visiting https://www.returntoplayseries.com and https://exsci.cuchicago.edu/summer-webinar-series-strategies-for-athletes-to-retrain-and-recondition-without-injury/.
ABOUT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
Concordia University Chicago is a leader in exercise science in the United States, offering affordable undergraduate and graduate degree programs that are 100% online, including a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology; Master of Science in Applied Exercise Science, with concentrations in Sports Nutrition, Strength and Conditioning, Sports Performance Training, Exercise Physiology, and Human Movement Science; and a PhD/EdD in Leadership, Health and Human Performance.
Students in these programs become eligible to sit for important industry certifications, including the National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA CSCS), National Academy of Sports Medicine Corrective Exercise Specialist (NASM CES) and Performance Enhancement Specialist (NASM PES), International Society of Sports Nutrition Certified Sports Nutritionist (ISSN CISSN), and American College of Sports Medicine Exercise Physiologist (ACSM EP).
For more information on Concordia University Chicago’s exercise science degree programs, see https://exsci.cuchicago.edu.