Course: Sport Activities - Strength Training and Fitness

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Course title Sport Activities - Strength Training and Fitness
Course code MUTV/PSAPF
Organizational form of instruction Tutorial
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Melichárek Zdeněk, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Jenyš Lubomír, Mgr.
  • Svoboda Jiří, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
The main goal of fitness exercise is to optimise the level of fitness motor skills with regard to specific requirements of sports performance and physical preparation for it. At the same time, to prevent functional disorders and damage to organism due to training and competition pressure. Basic set of workout exercises: 1. back muscles, shoulder-blade muscles, extensor spinae 2. abdominal muscles, upper limbs, lower limbs, rectus abdominis and oblique abdominal muscles, mainly upper part, rectus abdominis and oblique abdominal muscles, mainly lower part 3. muscles that should not be worked out by beginners (spine rotators, shoulder-blade muscles, abdominal muscles, buttock muscles, shoulder muscles) General principles of workout: 1. Before workout, having warm-up exercises together with stretching, and after workout, always having stretching and relaxation exercises. 2. Practising harmoniously the whole neuromuscular apparatus with the emphasis on the muscles important for the upright posture and toning up the muscles around spine. 3. Paying attention to variety and diversity of the exercises, regularly including coordination exercises as well as the balance and diagonal ones with rotational elements of movement. 4. When doing exercises, first having the right body position, mastering the appropriate technique of physical movement together with the right breathwork. Mastering exercises first by great coordination of body movement with the effort to deliberately control the movement and then (not earlier), by dynamic workout. 5. Avoiding workout exercises that press down or distort in any other way spine (barbell squats, bent over rows, barbell lifting, and other things). 6. Using appropriate music for the exercises and subsequent relaxation. 7. Final stretching and relaxation.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Demonstration, Training in motion and work skills, Practice exercises
prerequisite
Knowledge
Good state of health, sports clothes and shoes
Good state of health, sports clothes and shoes
learning outcomes
Mastering basics of fitness workout, having the upright posture, breathwork and appropriate technique of exercises.
Mastering basics of fitness workout, having the upright posture, breathwork and appropriate technique of exercises.
Principles of safe behavior in the gym
Principles of safe behavior in the gym
Familiarization with individual fitness machines
Familiarization with individual fitness machines
Principles of proper reinforcement
Principles of proper reinforcement
Technique of proper breathing
Technique of proper breathing
Forms of strengthening - static and dynamic
Forms of strengthening - static and dynamic
Power triathlon
Power triathlon
Skills
uses the correct principles of safe operation in the gym
uses the correct principles of safe operation in the gym
practices exercises on individual fitness machines
practices exercises on individual fitness machines
applies the principles of correct and effective strengthening
applies the principles of correct and effective strengthening
perform correct breathing during individual exercises
perform correct breathing during individual exercises
incorporate individual forms of strengthening into their training
incorporate individual forms of strengthening into their training
teaching methods
Knowledge
Practice exercises
Practice exercises
Training in motion and work skills
Demonstration
Demonstration
Training in motion and work skills
assessment methods
Systematic observation of the student
Analysis of the student's performance
Analysis of the student's performance
Systematic observation of the student
Recommended literature
  • Dovalil, J., Choutka, M., Svoboda, B., Hošek, V., Perič, T., Potměšil, J., Vránová, J., & Bunc, V. Výkon a trénink ve sportu. Praha: Olympia, 2012. ISBN 80-7033-760-5.
  • Choutka, M., & Dovalil, J. Sportovní trénink. Praha: Olympia, 1992. ISBN 9788070330999.
  • Jarkovská, H. Posilování s vlastním tělem. GRADA Publishing, a.s., 2005. ISBN 80-247-0861-2.
  • Jarkovská,H. Posilování kondiční kruhový trénink. GRADA Publishing, a.s., 2016. ISBN 978-80-247-3056-1.
  • Lehnert, M., Novosad, J., & Neuls, F. Základy sportovního tréninku I.. Olomouc: Hanex, 2001. ISBN 80-85783-33-9.
  • Lehnert, M., Novosad., J., Neuls, F., Langer, F., & Botek, M. Trénink kondice ve sportu. Univerzita Palackého, Fakulta tělesné kultury, Olomouc., 2010. ISBN 9788024426143.
  • Lehnert, M. Současné směry teorie a praxe sportovního tréninku. Univerzita Palackého, Fakulta tělesné kultury, Olomouc., 2007.
  • Philip B. Maffetone. In Fitness and in Health. 1997. ISBN 978-0964206229.
  • Tlapák, P. Posilování kloubní kondice: centračně-stabilizační cvičení. ARSCI, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7420-037-3.
  • Welburn,H., M.Kolouch,V. Začínáme ve fitness. Computer Press, 2014. ISBN 80-251-1636-0.


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