- Docente: Franco Merni
- Credits: 4
- SSD: M-EDF/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Sciences and Techniques of Sports Activities (cod. 8037)
Learning outcomes
The magister graduate will be able to conduct and to manage the training for every level, choosing methods and specific plans for the different sport disciplines, particular evidence is given to the use special training exercises for strength, power, endurance and speed.
The student will be able to choose and to use, during the training and competition and in appropriate way, the systems of performance evaluation, through a correct computer elaboration of the data so that the training planning to make more precise.
In the progress some themes are deepened as those of different training plane models for the various sport disciplines and on the basis of the athlete curriculum, the overtraining, the high altitude training, the management of the database training and the use of the computer for the elaboration the training and performance data.
Course contents
Performance model studies during training and in competition: departure point of the training planning.
- The study of the competition in the individual and team sports: partial of competition, number and duration of the actions and recovery times, biomechanics and physiological analysis, the electronic scores databases.
- The performance study through the field and laboratory tests with representative athlete samples of different levels.
- The training planning on the base of the sport performance model and the objective evaluation of the single athlete characteristics.
- The training control and the load effects.
The control of the performance athlete state, the training plan control and the strategic choices of the methods and the times for the different sport performance increase.
^ Endurance:
° Tools for the inside load study (cardio-meter, lactic dosages), metabolic parameters (VE, VO2, VCO2) and EMG during field training.
° The external load determination (volume & speed with GPS and other tools, length and frequency of the footstep, accelerations, strength and power etc.)
^ Strength, Speed and Technique
° Forces, power, speed and linear and angular kinematics with different tools (photoelectric cells, sensory, accelerometers, optoelectronic technologies etc.)
The purpose of this course part is to furnish the theoretical knowledge's, the state-of-the-art and the practical competences for the use of the tools for the control of the training. It will be important to integrate the information with the Bioengineering course.
The training organization for different sport disciplines.
- Historical introduction on the training planning.
- General common fundaments of the training planning.
- Heterocronism of the adaptations for a long, middle and brief term and the biological rhythms of the different organs and apparatuses.
- The training cyclical structure and the different typologies of: micro-cycles, meso-cycles, macro-cycles.
- The simple and complex single session of training: temporal sequences of the activities according to the sport and the performance level.
- Planning and typology of the micro-cycles in the seasonal phases, criteria to construct for different levels and sport classes, numeric symbols of intensity used for planning.
- Planning and typology of the meso-cycles in the seasonal phases, for middle term different objectives and for different sport classes, duration, components and structural consideration.
- The macro-cycles planning with 1, 2 or more pecks in the different competitive season typologies and trends of the form conditions, the factors of peaking, phases of training.
- The long term planning, quadrennial plan forms
- The performance in function of volume, intensity, training specificity, frequency and importance of the competitions.
- The planning for the strength power and speed sports.
- The planning for the endurance sports.
- The planning in the combat sports.
- The planning in the team sports.
- The planning in the technical composition sports.
- The overtraining and overreaching problem list: the interaction between physician and sport trainer.
Specific Seminars.
- The young people training problem list: development of the motor abilities and sensitive phases, precocious specialization and/or multilaterality, objectives and models of the young people planning.
- General and special endurance training for different sport disciplines: particularly the Cycling model.
- The high altitude training for the endurance sports and for the other sports, and also for a high altitude competition or to improve the performance to sea level.
- The biochemical adaptations in the different training types and the control of the biological parameters for the training planning.
- The strength, endurance, rapidity special training examples and applications for the different individual and team sports.
The computer use for the elaboration of training and performance database.
- The training diary, different typologies of the variable and possibility of statistic and graphics elaboration through computer and the use of Excel.
- The relationship among performance and training variables: the different types of regression and the correlation coefficients.
- The data representation with graphic: with lines, columns, dispersion points with lines or curves interpolating.
- The study of the temporal series in the brief, middle and long period and simple methods of statistic analysis of the trend: linear and polynomial regression, the mobile averages.
The purpose of this part of the program is ovens the notions and the competences to elaborate the information related to the planning, previously and to back, of the diary of training with electronic support. Also in this case it will be opportune that the students have developed a form of computer science of base before developing this part
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Lab and field Exercises
Assessment methods
Project Work about training program of one sport
Oral examination
Office hours
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