What is Sports Science?
Generally speaking, it’s the scientific approach to sports.
In a bit more detail:
Sports Science focuses on the effects of sports on the body, the mind and social aspects.
Important parts of Sports Science are medicine, psychology, sport history, pedagogy and sociology.
While the bachelors degree has a broad range, the masters course of study puts a bit more focus on a specific field. I decided to focus on Training-Therapy.
Training-Therapy is used to help people with injuries, illness or other medical problems to get back on their feet. The focus is primarily in helping them to regain an independent lifestyle, to being able to participate in different activities and to get better overall.
Why Sports Science?
At the age of 6 I had already learned to ski, swim, run, hike, dive and scuba dive.
Since I started doing sports basically straight out of the womb, I decided at the age of 18 that it was the only education that made sense to me.
So I started to study for my bachelors degree at the University of Vienna. After that I didn’t know what to do, so I just continued to study, only this time for my masters degree.
I’m now in the final stretch to finishing my academic career (as long as I don’t get any ideas and start a PhD).
Over the years I learned a lot about sports, how the body works, how it reacts to certain activities and how to use sports properly to enhance physical and mental wellbeing.
Experiences during my studies:
During the course of my studies, I had many great opportunities to get some field experiences.
I learned how to take blood out of the capillary of the ear, how to properly lead through a spiroergometry and spirometry, how to interpret the readings and how to conduct many other interesting tests.
Here are some pictures of me, experiencing the tests myself:
Getting tested for blood lactate concentration during cycling
In preparation for a spiroergometry
Me during a basal metabolic rate measurement
