Online services

 

Unibo Structures

 

You are in: Home > Course catalogue > Course unit catalogue > Teaching

49124 - Theory of Training

Academic Year 2011/2012

Teacher Franco Merni
Number of credits 3
SSD M-EDF/02
Teaching Mode Traditional lectures
Lingua Italian
Versione italiana

Learning outcomes

This course starts from the physiological, biochemical, and neuro-psychological factors characterising the adaptations of the human organism to the different kinds of physical exercise.

On these bases the course provides methodological and didactical tools to correctly propose various methodologies and an appropriate planning of the training, different for every kind of sport and field of motor activity.

Course contents

Sport classification and performance models.

- Bioenergetics and biomechanical classifications.

- Classifications according to the technical characteristics.

- Relationships among performance model, methodologies and planning of the training.

General principles of the training.

- The parameters of the training load: Volume, Intensity, Density, Difficulty.

- Definition of external and inner load.

- Differences among regulation of the physiological functions during the exercise and consequent adaptation to a period of training.

- Load of training, recovery and adaptation: concept of overcompensation.

- Classification of the means of training: general, specific and competition exercises.

- The fundamental principles: continuity, progression, load-recovery alternation, variety and succession of the load, multilateral development, cyclical structure of the load, unity among general and specialized training

- The pedagogic principles: methodological progress, stability, evidence, adequacy, awareness.

- The training for the improvement of the performance, for the physical efficiency and wellness.

 

The motor abilities.

- Definition and classification of the Physical and Coordinative Abilities.

- Relationships among ability, motor skills and sport techniques.

- Evolution of the abilities and concept of sensitive phases for the training planning.

 

The sport and motor ability evaluation.

- Definition and purposes of the evaluation:

            ^ Diagnostic (to study the characteristics and the performance lacks of the subject),

            ^ To dosing the load of training,

            ^ To control the athlete performance state,

^ Prognostic tests as talent identification tools and the start up to the different sport.

- The presuppositions of a test: reliability, objectivity, validity, costs and times of execution.

- The procedural norms and the reference standardized norms (as percentiles).

 

The organization of the training.

- Long term Planning.

- Elements to be considered in the layout of training plan.

- Biological factors and cyclic structure of the training plans (crono-biology), concept of overtraining (differences between overreaching and overtraining).

- High level of performance definition and purposes of the periodization.

- Macro-cycle: to peak performance, with two pecks (double periodization), with more pecks.

- Phases of training: preparation, competition, transition.

- Modulation of the sub-phases: general, specific and competitive.

- Modulation of the parameters of the load during the phases: volume, intensity, density.

- Models of periodization:

            ^ According to Matveev,

            ^ According to Tschiene for evolved athletes,

            ^ For the young people,

            ^ For the endurance, strength and speed sports, and for the team sport..

- Objective of the intermediary cycles, models of meso-cycles: 3:1, 2:1, 1:1; increasing or lowering loads.

- The classification of Short time cycles or Micro-cycles during the phases of training, pre-competition, competition, recovery and their characterising load trends.

 

Language of instruction

Italian

Office hours

See the Faculty member's website