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Running and Trail Running Course

4th Edition

October 15th, 2025
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37h

THEORETICAL CLASSES

8h

PRACTICAL CLASSES

45h

DURATION

B-learning

FORMAT

Running and Trail Running Course

Athletics is a sport with great tradition and attraction for those who choose to exercise and/or compete. There are different athletics disciplines that have provided a massive participation of people of different age groups and in different physical and clinical conditions. This poses a challenge to the various stakeholders. Ohe benefits are many. The risks can and should be mitigated to a minimum through competent and desirable interventions by sports science and medical and health science professionals. Contraindication, even in competitive circumstances, is the exception.

This course aims to develop knowledge and skills in:

  • Technical and historical literacy of the different disciplines
  • Sports medicine: intervention for health and performance
  • Planning and periodization of training for different objectives and modalities
  • Nutritional assessment and sports nutrition
  • Performance evaluation in the laboratory and in the field
  • Physiology of marathon, trail running and altitude training and competition
  • Strength training and recovery methods in running and trail running
  • Injury prevention and increased robustness of athletes
  • Intervention of psychology for the improvement of mental performance
  • Brand development and team management

We have invited a team of renowned professionals to interpret the programmatic content with the broad purpose of enabling the monitoring of running and trail running athletes in the context of health, athletic performance and their career. It will be, for sure, an added value for:

  • Athletic Trainers
  • Doctors (specialists in general and family medicine, sports medicine, endocrinology, physical and rehabilitation medicine, and orthopedics and traumatology)
  • Physiotherapists
  • Athletes
  • Other running stakeholders

"Today, it's watching them set foot on the path. They and they, the youngest and the most experienced, all running, sometimes for the medal and sometimes for health and well-being."

In the course Running and Trail Running we will address and discuss key issues and determinants for health, athletic ability and sporting success. It is intended that this course contributes to good practices and Victories!

OBJECTIVES

  Characterize and discuss the specificities of the different running and trail running modalities;
  Describe and discuss the sports medicine evaluation process;
  Know and promote strategies for regular monitoring of the athlete's health status;
  Identify and discuss the role of health teams in the evaluation, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of injuries, diseases and conditions, frequent and/or serious, that can affect the athlete;
  Identify and compare navigation devices with GPS and advanced metrics monitoring;
  Select and apply fundamentals and principles of biomechanics/technique indexed to running for prevention and improvement of athletic and sport performance;
  Explain and evaluate models and programs for planning and periodizing training;
  Characterize and discuss dietary and nutritional assessment and intervention in athletes;
  Characterize and discuss physiological, biochemical, and neuromuscular assessment and monitoring procedures;
  To describe and evaluate specificities of physiological processes related to different running and trail running modalities, under training and competition circumstances;
  Describe and implement neuromuscular development, endurance and recovery strategies for athletes;
  Recognize and evaluate the role of psychology in runner and mental and sport performance;
  Discuss marketing concepts and develop brand and team management strategies and advertising communications.
Description

WHY WILL I BE BETTER WITH THIS COURSE?

It will be better because the technical-scientific matrix of the course, as well as the excellence of the teaching team, provide a unique opportunity to develop knowledge and skills, both transversal and specific, applicable in the context of their basic training and to the running and the trail running. Thus, in the propaedeutic spheres of running and trail runningIf you're looking for a new approach to training, training prescription and control, cutting-edge technology to optimize safety and performance, health intervention, and brand and/or career management, you'll be exposed to a process that has enormous potential to enable you to intervene in a results-oriented way.

This training is certified by IPDJ with 3.7 credit units awarded.

PROGRAM

8:00pm | 9:00pm Ester Alves

Running and trail running - History.

9:00pm | 10:00pm Ester Alves

Competition intensity and determinants of running and trail running

8:00pm | 9:00pm Ester Alves

Running and trail running modalities - Navigation Gadgets - GPS

9:00pm | 10:00pm Ester Alves

Running and trail running modalities - Altitude and skyrunning

8:00pm | 9:00pm 

Pre-participation medical evaluation

9:00pm | 10:00pm 

Athlete's Heart

8:00pm | 9:00pm 

Respiratory pathology in the athlete: education and treatment.

9:00pm | 10:00pm 

Train and compete in extreme situations.

7:00pm | 8:00pm Paulo Pinheiro

Most common lesions: diagnosis and treatment.

 8:00pm | 9:00pm

Dermatological injuries of the practitioner.

 9:00pm | 10:00pm

Regular monitoring of the athlete's health condition.

8:00PM | 11:00PM Rui Norte

Introduction to planning; Planning models; Periodization models; Polarized training; Tapering.

8:00pm | 9:00pm Ester Alves

Training platforms - software.

8:00pm | 10:00pm

Introduction to nutrition;
Body composition assessment and energy expenditure estimation;
Nutrition during training and competition.

8:00pm | 10:00pm 

Nutritional periodization;
Supplementation and ergogenic "aids".

8:00pm | 10:00pm Ester Alves

Introduction
Concepts (VO2, Lactate, Strength, Biomechanics)
Laboratory evaluation (VO2)
Field evaluation (VO2, Lactate)
Biochemical and load control (Strength and Biomechanics)

8:00pm | 10:00pm

Physiology in the context of marathon runners
Physiology in the context of ultra-marathon runners
Physiological Performance Factors
Training and competing at altitude

8:00pm | 10:00pm Francisco Tavares

Strength training in running and trail running: prescription and effects
Recovery strategies and methods for runners

8:00pm | 10:00pm 

Resistance training methodologies for different modalities

8:00pm | 9:00pm 

Models and programs for injury prevention in running and trail running

9:00pm | 10:00pm Isabel Crespo

Training load and injuries

8:00pm | 10:00pm Rita Giro

RED-S and Nutrition in the context of injury prevention.

8:00pm | 10:00pm Nuno Cardoso

The psychology of running
Case studies
Strategies for Improving Mental Performance
Self-assessment

8:00pm | 10:00pm Ester Alves

Technologies used in running
Devices and programs to measure advanced metrics
Running power

8:00pm | 10:00pm João Paulo Rocha

Brand Concepts
Sports Marketing
Customer Involvement
Social networking

9.00 | 11.00

Food and sports nutrition in running and trail running - what is the right fuel?

11:00am | 1:00pm Ester Alves

Running and trail running - Gadgets for navigation and training management - GPS

14:30 | 18:30 Ester Alves

Evaluation of VO2 on the track

*Date subject to change

Faculty

Ester Alves
Ester Alves
SCIENTIFIC-PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATOR AND LECTURER
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FMAC + JSA Mª João Sá
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FAQ's

Starts October 15, 2025.

Athletic trainers; doctors (specialists in general and family medicine, sports medicine, endocrinology, physical and rehabilitation medicine, and orthopedics and traumatology); personal trainers; physical therapists; athletes; other stakeholders of running and trail running.

Phased payment with registration:
70% - Upon registration
30% - After 30 days

1st price until 15/08/2025- 330€
2nd price until 15/09/2025 - 380€
3rd price after 15/09/2025 - 410€

The final classification in the course will result from the quantitative classification obtained by the final exam. The assessment comprises the answers to a 20-question multiple-choice exam. Each correct answer contributes 1 point to the final classification. The exam will be held at the end of the course.

The final evaluation of each course is expressed through a classification on a numerical scale from 0 to 20 points, with approval being considered as obtaining a minimum of 10 points.

The final classification of the course can be accompanied by a qualitative mention, expressed on the following scale: Sufficient (10 to 13), Good (14 and 15), Very Good (16 and 17) and Excellent (18 to 20).

According to the Portuguese legislation (DL 42/2005 of 22 February), grades below 10, on a scale from 0 to 20, imply failure.

At the end of the course, an evaluation instrument will be applied to measure the participants’ satisfaction with the training process and the conditions for carrying out the course, aiming at possible improvement actions.

At the end of the course a Professional Training Certificate will be issued, according to current legislation (Ordinance No. 474/2010 of 8 July), to all participants who successfully complete the training action. This certificate, as well as a diploma, will be available in digital format in the participant area, on the site of the Dragon Clinic Academy, within a maximum of 30 working days after the end date of the action. If the student does not succeed, a Certificate of Attendance of Professional Training will be issued.

330,00 €

Registration fees:

1st price until 15/08/2025- 330€
2nd price until 15/09/2025 - 380€
3rd price after 15/10/2025 - 410€

WHAT DOES THIS COURSE INCLUDE?

  37h of lectures - 100% Online
  8h of practical component
  Recorded lessons, made available after live broadcast (exclusively online or on television), will no longer be accessible 31 days after the last live session broadcast of the course
  Vocational Training Certificate* or Vocational Training Attendance Certificate
  * In addition, the right to the Diploma issued by a FIFA, ISAKOS, ESSKA and ICRS accredited centre.
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330,00 €
To validate your registration follow the steps:
  1. Download the application form here;
  2. Click on "Add to Cart" and formalize the application by completing the payment of the application fee.
  3. Fill out the application form and send it to formacao@academiaespregueira.comtogether with a copy of the citizen's card or identity card / tax card, curriculum vitae updated, qualification certificatea photo your current and proof of payment.
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Registration fees:

1st price until 15/08/2025- 330€
2nd price until 15/09/2025 - 380€
3rd price after 15/10/2025 - 410€

Running and Trail Running Course

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Admission Fee:

330,00 €

To complete your application, follow the steps below:

  1. Click on "Add" and formalize the application by paying the corresponding fee.
  2. Please send your application and proof of payment of the application fee to formacao@academiaespregueira.com (Application elements: Copy of Citizen's Card or Identity Card/Contributor's Card, Full Address, E-mail, Telephone, Certificate of Qualifications and Curriculum Vitae).
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  3. Fill out the application form and send it to training@academiaespregueira.withYou should also bring a copy of your national identity card (front and back), a certificate of qualifications, a current photograph of yourself and proof of payment.

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Payment options:

1. early bird (until September 15, 2024) and prompt payment:
  • 10% discount: 2106 €
2. Reduction of 5% (after September 15, 2024) in Prompt Payment:
  • o 5% discount: 2223 €
3. Phased Payment (Investment of 2340 €):
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  • 25% - Until January 31, 2025: 585 €
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