2025
General Theory of Sports Training
Name: General Theory of Sports Training
Code: DES15021L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Human Kinetics
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1- Clarify and characterize the concepts of sports training, sports preparation, sports performance, training methodology;
2-Understand the biological laws of adaptation, the methodological and pedagogical principles of Sports Training;
3-To know the mechanisms of load-adaptation dynamics;
4-Understand each of the performance factors, within the structure of the different motor skills;
5- Identify the structural and functional differences between individual and collective modalities.
6- Know and know how to apply the main instruments and tests for the assessment of motor skills;
7-Master the structural components of the training load, operationalizing sessions for the specific motor skills of a given modality;
8-Master and apply the means and methods of training;
9- Understand and apply the different models of periodization of Sports Training, selecting the most appropriate according to the specific characteristics of its intervention context
2-Understand the biological laws of adaptation, the methodological and pedagogical principles of Sports Training;
3-To know the mechanisms of load-adaptation dynamics;
4-Understand each of the performance factors, within the structure of the different motor skills;
5- Identify the structural and functional differences between individual and collective modalities.
6- Know and know how to apply the main instruments and tests for the assessment of motor skills;
7-Master the structural components of the training load, operationalizing sessions for the specific motor skills of a given modality;
8-Master and apply the means and methods of training;
9- Understand and apply the different models of periodization of Sports Training, selecting the most appropriate according to the specific characteristics of its intervention context
Contents
The major blocks of subject to be addressed in the UC are the following:
1. General Foundations of Biological Mechanisms of Adaptation
2. Operational Bases for the Organization of the Training Process
3. Motor Skills Concept, conditioning factors and means and methods of training.
3.1. Coordination Capacities
3.2. Conditional Capacities
3.2.1. The Resistance
3.2.2. The Force
3.3. Coordination-conditional capacities
3.3.1. The Speed
3.3.2. Flexibility
4. Workout Preparation
4.1. Training Factors
4.2. Physical training
4.3. Technical training
4.4. Tactical training
4.5. Multidimensional approach
4.6. Variability in Sports Preparation Processes
4.7. Decision-Making Training in Sport
5. Planning and Periodization of Sports Training
5.1. Periodization of skills and capabilities;
5.2. Training Session Planning
5.3. Training cycle planning
5.4. Recovery Methods and Strategies
5.5. Specifics in Cyclical Sports
5.6. Specifics in Team Sports
6. Sports Preparation of young athletes
1. General Foundations of Biological Mechanisms of Adaptation
2. Operational Bases for the Organization of the Training Process
3. Motor Skills Concept, conditioning factors and means and methods of training.
3.1. Coordination Capacities
3.2. Conditional Capacities
3.2.1. The Resistance
3.2.2. The Force
3.3. Coordination-conditional capacities
3.3.1. The Speed
3.3.2. Flexibility
4. Workout Preparation
4.1. Training Factors
4.2. Physical training
4.3. Technical training
4.4. Tactical training
4.5. Multidimensional approach
4.6. Variability in Sports Preparation Processes
4.7. Decision-Making Training in Sport
5. Planning and Periodization of Sports Training
5.1. Periodization of skills and capabilities;
5.2. Training Session Planning
5.3. Training cycle planning
5.4. Recovery Methods and Strategies
5.5. Specifics in Cyclical Sports
5.6. Specifics in Team Sports
6. Sports Preparation of young athletes
Teaching Methods
According to the pedagogical model, it is intended a teaching centered on student learning, unified in the development of skills. Thus, the UC is organized in theoretical classes (22.5h) and theoretical-practical classes (22.5h). The theoretical classes are plenary and based on the scientific method, valuing the search for information, interpretation of experimental results and a critical attitude.
The theoretical-practical context promotes in the student the need to deepen knowledge, with activities focused on the development of tasks for the application of means and methods of training, as well as in the mastery of instruments and tests for the assessment of motor skills. To this end, tasks will be proposed for the application of contents 3 to 6, in groups of students, which will result in session reports. This teaching methodology also allows an articulation with the pedagogical model, both in the relationship with society and with the development of disciplinary and transversal s
The theoretical-practical context promotes in the student the need to deepen knowledge, with activities focused on the development of tasks for the application of means and methods of training, as well as in the mastery of instruments and tests for the assessment of motor skills. To this end, tasks will be proposed for the application of contents 3 to 6, in groups of students, which will result in session reports. This teaching methodology also allows an articulation with the pedagogical model, both in the relationship with society and with the development of disciplinary and transversal s
Assessment
According to the pedagogical model of the University of Évora, the practices of self-regulatory assessment of students' learning aim to put assessment at the service of learning, and should be directed both to the assessment of the acquisition of knowledge and also to the development of skills. In this sense, the evaluation of the UC includes the following:
The evaluation, both continuous and final, is conditioned to the fulfillment of 75% of effective attendance in the theoretical-practical classes.
Requirement:- Obtain a partial grade equal to or greater than 9.5 in all proposed evaluation tasks;
Assessment tasks:
1. Realization of 2 Frequencies (50%)
2. Session Reports Theoretical-Practical Classes (50%)
The evaluation, both continuous and final, is conditioned to the fulfillment of 75% of effective attendance in the theoretical-practical classes.
Requirement:- Obtain a partial grade equal to or greater than 9.5 in all proposed evaluation tasks;
Assessment tasks:
1. Realization of 2 Frequencies (50%)
2. Session Reports Theoretical-Practical Classes (50%)
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