Overview

An integrated approach to the physical dimension of the game

Physical preparation in soccer cannot be understood as something separate from the game. Players do not run, accelerate, recover or adapt outside a context: everything happens within a collective, tactical, emotional and competitive logic.

Based on the modules on movement-body in the game and energy for understanding performance, the course shows that physical preparation means understanding the body that plays, decides, feels, interacts and adapts according to the specificity of a team.

Rather than training isolated physical capacities, the course helps coaches and fitness coaches read movement, fatigue, recovery and adaptation as phenomena that emerge from training and competition.

Physical preparation is not taken away from the game; it is understood from the game itself.

OUTCOMES

What you will learn

Integrated Vision

To understand physical preparation as an inseparable part of the game, relating player-team and training-competition.

Movement in the Game

To interpret player movement as an expression of the tactical-technical context and competitive demand.

Performance and Recovery

Analyze performance-fatigue-recovery and the corresponding adaptation without separating the body from the logic of the game.

Details

Course Details

FORMAT

100% Online
Course in English

SCHEDULE

8:00–11:00 p.m.
Starts October 8

CERTIFICATION

Course certificate
2 UCs for TPTD renewal

TARGET AUDIENCE

Soccer coaches, fitness coaches, physiologists and sport science professionals

SCHEDULE

Module 1
October 8, 15 and 22, 2026

Language
English

Module 2
October 26, November 3 and November 10, 2026

Format
100% online

Live Classes
Thursdays

Time
8:00–11:00 p.m.

Program

Program Content

Course organized into 2 modules: movement-body in the game and energy metabolism to understand the physical dimension in soccer.

1.1. The paradigm of complexity with a different way of looking at the same objects: GAME, PLAYER, TEAM, BODY…

1.2. How Tactical Periodization respects the individuality of each player.

1.3. “Injury prevention” in light of Tactical Periodization. Risk mitigation as a side effect of the training process.

1.4. Understanding how complements, activations, pre-activations and top-ups should be integral parts of each TRAINING SESSION.

This module focuses on the understanding of player movement in soccer as an expression of Playing and not as an isolated manifestation of the body. The body that plays decides, feels, interacts and adjusts according to a shared tactical Intention, always situated in the collective context.

Thus, preparation ceases to be “physical” in the separated sense of the term, and becomes integrated into the specificity of a Playing, that is, of its own team.

Training will be oriented toward creating propensional conditions that allow the intended playing to emerge, promoting collective and individual adaptation.

     1.4.2. Structure and sub-structures

     1.4.3. Game System

     1.4.4. Game Model as an intention in action

1.5. Practical Case Study

2.1. The perspective of Integrative Physiology on ADAPTABILITY and PERFORMANCE.

2.2. The illusion of metabolic fragmentation and the respective aerobic and anaerobic training.

This module focuses on the understanding of energy metabolism, considering individual performances, recovery and the corresponding adaptation as phenomena inseparable from collective playing. In soccer, individualized bioenergetic adaptations must be interpreted in light of a pattern of Interactions and collective organization.

Participants will learn to read players’ responses to training and competition through Integrative Physiology, where performance, fatigue and recovery are part of the same bioenergetic algorithm.

The “adaptation-adaptability” will be addressed as a process specific to each team, built through the systematic repetition of game patterns, and not through the individual accumulation of physical loads.

Tuition

Enrollment Information

Price

360€
10% Discount for Former Students

Minimum

10 Participants

Course opening is subject to the minimum number of enrollments.

Form

To be defined
Registration link to be added.

Faculty

Course Instructors

Miguel Lopes

Instructor

Miguel Lopes

Currently/Atualmente: Training Coordinator/Coordenador da Formação USC Paredes
Football Coach/Treinador de Futebol: FC Porto Sub-17, Vitória SC, Umm-Salal SC (Qatar), SC Espinho, FC Vizela, AD Sanjoanense, FC Penafiel, Padroense FC , Dragon Force , FC Porto, AJEF Hernâni Gonçalves (Portugal)
Training Coordinator/Coordenador da Formação: FC Paços de Ferreira (Portugal)
Technical Director/Diretor Técnico: Dragon Force (Portugal)
Academic Qualifications/Habilitações Académicas: University of Porto – Sports Faculty (focus Football)/ Universidade do Porto – Faculdade de Desporto (opção Futebol)

Rui Lemos

Instructor

Rui Lemos

Currently/Atualmente: Free Agent/ Livre
Strength and Conditioning Coach/Preparador Fisico: Sporting Clube de Braga, Olympique Lyonnais, LASK Linz
Former Clubs/Futebol de Formção: SC Braga (sub-17; sub-19; Equipa B)
Academic Qualifications/Habilitações Académicas: Alto Ave Higher Education Institute – Bachelor’s Degree in Physiotherapy / Physiotherapist, University of Maia – UMAIA – Master’s degree in Physical Education Teaching and Coaching, Official School of Tactical Periodisation – Professional Master on Tactical Periodisation / Instituto Superior do Alto Ave – Licenciatura, Physical Therapy/Therapist, Universidade da Maia – UMAIA – Mestrado, Physical Education Teaching and Coaching, Escola Oficial Periodização Táctica – Master Profissional em Periodização Táctica.

Ready to rethink physical preparation from the game itself?

«Physical Preparation» in soccer — new 100% online course.

Yes. It is an introductory course to «Physical Preparation» in soccer through Tactical Periodization.

It starts on October 8, 2026.

Not yet. Enrollment details will be announced once confirmed.

Yes. It is 100% online.