Aims

To allow the student to acquire competences necessary to be able to set up the strategies of drive essential to the improvement of the performances of a sportsman or a sporting team.

Main themes

The sporting drive is a complex process, multifactoriel which must be structured (contained, methods, organization, evaluation and planning) in order to carry out the best performance. Accordingly, the sporting drive will be approached under all the facets of the human person, namely: - biological dimension (development of fundamental physical qualities, force, speed, endurance, flexibility) - technical dimension (driving and cognitive skills) - psychosocial dimension (personalities, emotion and anxiety, regard and the assertion of oneself, the motivation and the attention, the styles cognitive and the decision-making, the relations between trainers, athletes and parents, the methods of regulation and control)

Content and teaching methods

Part I
Introduction
Scientific principles of sport training
Biological adaptation and overcompensation
Energy system
Strengh-speed-power
Overtraining
Planning sport practice
Performance testing
Training for individual and team sports
Part II
1. Sport and exercise psychology. 1.1. Definition and areas. 1.2. The job of te sport psychologist. 1.2.1. Psychological intervention and psychological preparation: which differences? 1.2.2. His limits. 2. The functionning of the athlete. 3. Efficacy and non efficacy functionning. 4. Scientific methods of the psychological preparation. 4.1. Cognitives. 4.2. Physiologicals. 4.3. Behaviorals. 5. Clinical illustrations

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Pre-necessary: General psychology, physiology of the exercise

Evaluation: Oral (4 étudiants/h) or written

Support: PowerPoint presentation on ICampus

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