Scienze delle Attività Motorie e Sportive L-22 - Asti

To acquire knowledge about theory, technique and teaching principles of Track and Field.

The course aims to support students in the experience of:

• educational drills designed to acquire the basic motor skills;

• preliminary drills for the Track and Field disciplines.

• Acquisition and consolidation of the specific language for Track and field

• Knowledge about biomechanic principles applied to running, jumping and throwing

• Knowledge about technical execution of running, jumping and throwing

• Acquisition and application of coaching principles in running, jumping and throwing events

• Knowledge related to Track and Field rules and regulations

• To be able to design, organize and implement exercise progressions related to running, jumping and throwing disciplines for different populations, among these: children, young people, adults and athletes.

The course is structured in 50 hours of frontal teaching subdivided in classes of 2-3 hours on the basis of academic calendar. Classes are structured in practical activities on the track and theoretical activities in class using slides.

1. 1. Written test (duration 60 minutes) composed of 30 multiple-choice questions, each of them with 4 possible answers. This test will be marked out of 30: 1 point for each correct answer (negative points for failed questions are not to be used).

   2. Technical and practical oral exam on exercise progressions. This test will be marked out of 30.

   Whether the written test is passed with a minimum of 18/30 it will be possible to proceed with the oral exam. The final evaluation will be the average score of the written and the oral tests, whether in both of them the students achieved a minimum score of 18/30.

   Topics examined will be those addressed during lessons and presented in the programme course. It will be necessary to demonstrate a correct use of technical terminology.

    

1. Introduction to Track and Field disciplines and its performance models

2. Rules and regulations of Track and Field and the organization of the competition field

3. Sprints and hurdles (history, specialties, performance models, technical evolution, biomechanics, coaching principles) - Technical and practical experience, exercise progression, case studies

4. Middle, long and endurance running (history, specialties, performance models, technical evolution, biomechanics, coaching principles) - Technical and practical experience, exercise progression, case studies

5. Horizontal jumps (history, specialties, performance models, technical evolution, biomechanics, coaching principles) - Technical and practical experience, exercise progression, case studies

6. Vertical jumps (history, specialties, performance models, technical evolution, biomechanics, coaching principles) - Technical and practical experience, exercise progression, case studies

7. Throws (history, specialties, performance models, technical evolution, biomechanics, coaching principles) - Technical and practical experience, exercise progression, case studies

8. General and specific pre athletic training for the different specialties

9. Variability and specificity of the load for the different specialties

Lessons (slides) and documents uploaded online (compulsory)

AA.VV., Track & Field Coaching Essentials, USA Track & Field Level 1 Coach Education Manual, Will Freeman Editor, Human Kinetics, 2015 (non compulsory)