Overall objectives:

- Identify and apply the key principles of developing swimming programs, understanding their importance in the training of young swimmers.
- Characterize the concepts inherent to the swimmer's long-term development process, assuming the need to build a career plan.
- Characterize the strategy for attracting and developing talent in pure swimming.
- Analyze the technique and select technical exercises with a view to correcting it.
- Analyze sports performance in training and competition situations and create respective improvement strategies.
- Plan and implement a program with a view to learning different techniques, respecting the progression and coherence of the plan.
- Identify the most common injuries in pure swimming and know how to implement strategies to prevent them.
- Select specific and appropriate tasks for the development of different intensity zones.
- Identify and describe the different training aids in pure swimming, characterizing their main characteristics.
- Identify and characterize the principles and main periodization systems used in pure swimming.
- Be able to structure short and long-term training plans, integrating macrocycles and microcycles appropriate to the proposed objectives.

Syllabus:

A) Sports Training Process in Pure Swimming

1) Development of Pure Swimming Programs

a) Fundamental principles of Youth Training in pure swimming

i. Training and improvement of different swimming techniques

ii. Training in different intensity zones

iii. The competitive experience in different contextual situations

b) Multi-annual planning ? organization of the stages of evolution of a young swimmer

i. Characteristics and trainability of the various performance factors

ii. Motor development and acquisition and improvement of different skills

iii. Training load progression

c) Construction of a Long-Term Swimmer Development Plan, guided by the FPN PDNLP

i. Step 1: Fundamental Movements

ii. Step 2: Technical fundamentals

iii. Step 3: Learn to Train

iv. Step 4: Train to Compete

v. Step 5: Train to Win

2) Sports Talent

a) Recognition of a sporting talent in pure swimming

i. Anatomical Qualities of a Young Swimmer

ii. Psychological Qualities of a Young Swimmer

iii. Physiological qualities of a young swimmer

iv. Practical examples in pure swimming

b) Creation of programs to identify a Talent in pure swimming

i. Goals

ii. Assessment models and protocols

iii. talent and development

iv. Talent and involvement

 

B) Swimming Training Methodology and Planning

1) Pure Swimming Training Methodology

a) Zones of intensity

i. Aerobic? Capacity and Power

ii. Anaerobic? Capacity and Power

iii. Others/Mixed Zones

b) Typical training sets in pure swimming

i. Practical applications of training sets

c) Water training aids

i. palas

ii. fins

iii. rubber bands

iv. Resistance/enablers

v. Snorkel

2) Pure Swimming Training Planning

a) Practical application of the process to pure swimming

i. Characteristics of the sport season in pure swimming

ii. The competitive frame in pure swimming

iii. Setting goals in pure swimming

iv. Training planning in pure swimming

v. Periodization systems in pure swimming

b) Periodization of the Training process in Young Swimmers

i. Particularities of the competitive framework in the training levels in pure swimming

ii. Periodization models of training in young swimmers

 

C) Technical and Tactical Training

1) Technical training in pure swimming

a) Determining factors of the technique

i. swimming techniques

ii. starting techniques

iii. turning techniques

b) Objectives

i. Increased propulsive force

ii. Decreased hydrodynamic drag

iii. Decrease of intra-cyclic speed fluctuations

c) Technical training methods and procedures

i. Equipment

ii. Special needs

iii. Communication

d) critical points

i. Ranking of technical errors

ii. Consequences of technical errors

iii. Causes of technical errors

iv. Fix Proposal/Technical Drills

v. Feedback

2) Specific Training for the Competition/Tactical Training

a) Purpose

i. The indicated gestural frequency

ii. The range of gestural cycle

iii. Technical training and race pace training

b) Tactics and Strategy

i. the group training

ii. Analysis of opponents

iii. The test management

iv. Methodological principles

c) Forms of training organization

i. Competition preparation/race pace

ii. Proposed training tasks

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