This course is designed to provide the performance coach with advanced principles related to enhancing athletic performance through scientific methodologies. The focus of this class will include the following: physiology of exercise specifically metabolic pathways for energy, classification of sport and exercises by metabolic pathways, concepts to improve speed, agility, power, strength, endurance, and flexibility, periodization planning for sport specific training, valid and reliable testing procedures for evaluating performance, and practical techniques for sport training.