Evaluation and Control of Training Process

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Together with the lectures, laboratorial and / or field work protocols will be presented. The sessions will be divided in 3 modules.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit aims at providing students with:

- knowledge and mastery of the main organic adaptations to training load, integrating them in the specificity of paediatric physiology.

- the ability to build a conceptual framework for monitoring training loads, distinguishing between the functional variations attributable to training, circadian rhythm and seasonal variation.

- the ability to detect adaptation and inadequacy indicators to the sports workout load.

- knowledge and mastery of the main methodologies for assessing sports techniques qualitatively.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Energy Systems – ATP production. Measuring energy consumption during exercise. Energy expenditure at rest and during exercise. Causes of Fatigue. 2. Hormonal regulation of exercise – the endocrine response to exercise. Hormonal effects on metabolism, and fluid and electrolyte balance during exercise. 3. Metabolic adaptations to exercise – adaptations to aerobic and anaerobic training. Monitoring training. 4. Cardio respiratory and cardiovascular adaptations to training. 5. Exercise in hypobaric, hyperbaric and microgravity environments. 6. Optimizing sport performance – quantifying training loads. 7. Pretest preparation. Athlete, laboratory and laboratorial equipment. 8. General assessment procedures for estimating maximum oxygen consumption and anaerobic capacity. Anaerobic threshold: concepts and controversies. 9. Technical efficiency and sport efficiency: efficiency indicators. 10. Analyzing the influence of different elements in the sport performance.

Head Lecturer(s)

Amândio Manuel Cupido Santos

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Frequency: 50.0%
Bibliographic research work: 50.0%

Final
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Wilmore and Costill (2004). Physiology of Sport and Exercise, Third edition. Human Kinetics

Rowland T (2005). Cildren’s Exercise Physiology, 2sd ed. Human Kinetics.

Armstrong N (2007). Paediatric Exercise Physiology. Churchill Livingstone Elsevier.

ACSM (2006). ACSM´s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, 7th ed., Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

Hoffman J (2002). Physiological aspects of sport training and performance, Human Kinetics.

Armstrong N, Van Mechelen W (2008). Paediatric exercise science and medicine, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press.

Gore CJ (2000). Physiological tests for elite athletes, Human Kinetics.