Sports Specialization II - Swimming

Year
1
Academic year
2022-2023
Code
02042187
Subject Area
Sport Sciences
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Other Languages of Instruction
English
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Sports Specialization I - Swimming. Students should have essential English language domain (reading and comprehension) and basic knowledge of training methodology, biomechanics and exercise physiology.

Teaching Methods

The Theorical sessions will have an expository character on the different topics of the programs. The TP sessions complement the theoretical program exploring and problematizing real training situations with the voluntary and regular support of experienced coaches. Students should produce a dossier with chromatic analysis sheets of the problems placed in the TP class.

Learning Outcomes

This UC is oriented towards the development of advanced skills of swimming coaching. At the end of the course, the student should demonstrate the ability to:

(1) implement strategies of intervention  supporting the specialization of swimmers along their career; (2) Design and implement appropriated  programs to the high level athletes (3) Coordinate the implementation of long term sports career programs. (4) Design multiyear programs and coordinate their implementation.

(5) Optimizing the competitive paticipation; (6) Select collect and analyse data relevant to the monitoring of the sports career of the practitioner.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The microstructure and the mesostructure of the training process

Modeling and quantification of the training load.

Training and performance quantification

Fatigue markers

Linear and nonlinear modeling

Fatigue curves and shape curves typical of swimming

Periodization, overeaching and overtraining

The training of the female athlete. Regulation and changes of the menstrual cycle with the training process

Long term athlete development.

Technologies to support the controlo and monitoring of training and competition. 

Head Lecturer(s)

Luís Manuel Pinto Lopes Rama

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 50.0%
Synthesis work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Cunha, P., Proença, J., & Rama, L. (2014). Desenvolvimento da Capacidade Aeróbia em Nadadores – Critérios para Prescrição e Controlo de Tarefas de Treino em Zonas Aeróbias. Revista Gymnasium, 5(1(7)), 131-148.

Foster, C., Rodriguez-Marroyo, J. A., & de Koning, J. J. (2017). Monitoring Training Loads: The Past, the Present, and the Future. Int J Sports Physiol Perform, 12(Suppl 2), S22-S28.

Halson, S. L. (2014). Monitoring training load to understand fatigue in athletes. Sports Medicine, 44 (Suppl 2), S139-147.

Mullen, J. G. (2018). Swimming Science: Optimum performance in the water: Ivy Press.

Seiler, S. (2010). What is best practice for training intensity and duration distribution in endurance athletes. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 5(3), 276-291.

Stöggl, T. L., & Sperlich, B. (2015). The training intensity distribution among well-trained and elite endurance athletes. Frontiers in Physiology, 6, 295.