Sports and health: specialist fields
Whether yoga, football or fitness training: every sporting discipline involves countless poses and routines. This presents a huge challenge for translation and training alike. After all, everything must make perfect sense. So your specialised translator must immerse themselves entirely in the material. Ideally, they should be a qualified coach or active athlete themselves. Disciplines I can offer off the cuff with a clear conscience:
| Qualifications/training | |
| Athletics: strength, plyometrics, sprint, endurance, coordination, stabilisation training | DFB fitness coach (C Licence), personal trainer (EQF Level 3) |
| Basketball | University sport at FTSK Germersheim, university team at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, ASV Laineck amateur team |
| Board sports: windsurfing, snowboarding and skateboarding | SV Gesees – skiing and cycling divisions, skiing courses in Obertauern (Austria), windsurfing course in Annecy (France) |
| Bodybuilding | Personal trainer (EQF Level 3) |
| Climbing | DAV Top Rope Climbing certificate |
| Fitness | Personal trainer (EQF Level 3) |
| Football | DFB fitness coach (C Licence), university football trainer SV Mistelgau (since 1980), ASV Pegnitz, TSV Plankenfels, VfR Sondernheim, TSV Westheim: player, youth coach and match coordinator |
| Jogging | DFB fitness trainer (C Licence) |
| Marathon running | DFB fitness trainer (C Licence) |
| Mountaineering, hiking, outdoor pursuits | DAV Toprope climbing certificate |
| Orthopedics and physiotherapy |
Degree in medical translation (Diplom), personal trainer (EQF Level 3) |
| Preventive and rehabilitation sports |
Degree in medical translation (Diplom), personal trainer (EQF Level 3) |
| Road cycling and mountain biking | SV Gesees sports club – skiing and cycling divisions |
| Running | DFB fitness trainer (C Licence) |
| Skiing | SV Gesees sports club – skiing and cycling divisions, ski courses in Obertauern (Austria) |
| Sports equipment | Personal trainer (EQF Level 3) |
| Sports games | MA in didactics of early language learning, dissertation involving an analysis of PC learning games |
| Sports medicine and biology | Advanced biology course, degree in medical translation (Diplom), personal trainer (EQF Level 3) |
| Sports nutrition | Degree in medical translation (Diplom), personal trainer (EQF Level 3) |
| Sports tourism | SV Gesees sports club – skiing and cycling divisions, ski courses in Obertauern (Austria), windsurfing course in Annecy (France) |
| Strength training | Personal trainer (EQF Level 3) |
| Tennis | 1-on-1/group lessons – SV Mistelgau sports club – tennis division |
| Triathlon | DFB fitness trainer (C Licence) |
| Volleyball | University sport at FTSK Germersheim, university teams at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland and Université Rennes 2 in France |
| Yoga | Courses at Taidokan martial arts school in Bayreuth |
In all of the above fields, I fulfil two key criteria:
- Comprehensive project experience through translated and published articles, brochures, specialist publications, etc.
- Targeted training lasting several months/years in a sports club or at university, or a recognised qualification.
I am well established on the scene and interact constantly with the industry. The bonus effect: I speak the same lingo your customers and readers speak.
| Selected for Bayreuth/Kulmbach regional football team (1986) | Road racing at SV Gesees (1990) | Mountaineering in the Dolomites (2019) | Living room workout (2020) |
