2024
Sport Performance Analysis I
Name: Sport Performance Analysis I
Code: DES14257M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Human Kinetics
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, Spanish
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
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Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
At the end of the course unit, students should:
1. Understand advanced topics in sports performance analysis
2. Acquire knowledge about the essential research methods for athletic testing and biomechanical and physiological diagnoses, under the scope of individual and collective sports;
3. Acquire knowledge to use appropriate devices and tools for these methods, as motion capturing techniques, gas exchange analyses, and isokinetic strength measurements (put into practice the knowledge acquired in the 1st-semester curriculum unit Applied technology for sport and health)
4. Improve the ability to develop and critically evaluate analytical/computer systems used in multiple sports;
5. Develop the ability to synthesize and interpret large sets of quantitative data using advanced statistical techniques.
1. Understand advanced topics in sports performance analysis
2. Acquire knowledge about the essential research methods for athletic testing and biomechanical and physiological diagnoses, under the scope of individual and collective sports;
3. Acquire knowledge to use appropriate devices and tools for these methods, as motion capturing techniques, gas exchange analyses, and isokinetic strength measurements (put into practice the knowledge acquired in the 1st-semester curriculum unit Applied technology for sport and health)
4. Improve the ability to develop and critically evaluate analytical/computer systems used in multiple sports;
5. Develop the ability to synthesize and interpret large sets of quantitative data using advanced statistical techniques.
Contents
1. Theoretical foundations of sports performance analysis;
2. Dynamic systems theory as a framework for understanding sports performance;
3. Sports competition as a dynamic self-organizing system;
4. Performance profiles through physical measurement methodologies and technologies:
4.1. Distance;
4.2. Time;
4.3. Velocity;
4.4. Acceleration;
4.5. Temperature;
4.6. Concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide;
4.7. Force;
4.8. Pressure;
5. Performance profiles through physiological measurement methodologies and technologies:
5.1. Electrical potentials: EMG, ECG, EEG;
5.2. Muscle strength measurements: isometric, isokinetic and dynamic;
5.3. Gas exchange analyses;
5.4. Blood tests;
6. Collection, processing and interpretation of sport performance data;
7. Performance analysis in stages of development and professional contexts.
2. Dynamic systems theory as a framework for understanding sports performance;
3. Sports competition as a dynamic self-organizing system;
4. Performance profiles through physical measurement methodologies and technologies:
4.1. Distance;
4.2. Time;
4.3. Velocity;
4.4. Acceleration;
4.5. Temperature;
4.6. Concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide;
4.7. Force;
4.8. Pressure;
5. Performance profiles through physiological measurement methodologies and technologies:
5.1. Electrical potentials: EMG, ECG, EEG;
5.2. Muscle strength measurements: isometric, isokinetic and dynamic;
5.3. Gas exchange analyses;
5.4. Blood tests;
6. Collection, processing and interpretation of sport performance data;
7. Performance analysis in stages of development and professional contexts.
Teaching Methods
The theoretical classes are based, fundamentally, on the exposition of the program's contents and the presentation of relevant scientific works in the area. Whenever possible, examples will be emphasized, using articles, aiming to stimulate students' interest.
Theoretical/Practical sessions will be essential in involving students in the implementation of sports performance analysis methodologies through collecting, manipulating, and processing independent data. Simulated situations will be promoted to solve practical cases in which students will actively participate in conducting methodologies.
The evaluation process will include the delivery and presentation of a research project where the entire methodological process is reported to answer an issue related to the analysis of sports performance: (i) final document (75%); (ii) presentation of the final document (25%).
Theoretical/Practical sessions will be essential in involving students in the implementation of sports performance analysis methodologies through collecting, manipulating, and processing independent data. Simulated situations will be promoted to solve practical cases in which students will actively participate in conducting methodologies.
The evaluation process will include the delivery and presentation of a research project where the entire methodological process is reported to answer an issue related to the analysis of sports performance: (i) final document (75%); (ii) presentation of the final document (25%).
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