Sport Biomechanics - Youth

Code:

TD21

Acronym:

TD21

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Sports Sciences

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	2nd Cycle in Sport Training - High Performance Training e Youth Training

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
2CTD	24	Official Plan (2018 - )	1	-	2	14	54

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

To develop in students advanced knowledge and skills for the use of biomechanical concepts, methods and advanced instrumentation in scientific evaluation and research, with a focus on the respective sports modalities of interest.

The students will know the fundamentals and will be able to prospect biomechanical problems and structure the most adequate response to them, enroling advanced kinematic (light based and inertial), anthropometric, dynamometric, electromyographic and thermographic evaluation systems.

Learning outcomes and competences

According to the objectives of the curricular unit, the syllabus contents were organized in order to begin by epistemologically defining biomechanics and to retake its foundations. In doing so it becomes clear to students the importance of these contents for the understanding of sports training (improvement, correction, optimization) of the mechanically more appropriate and less harmful gesture and for their evaluation (of the quality of the technique) using advanced methods.

The emphasis placed on the objective biomechanical evaluation (instrumental and laboratory vocation) reinforces te coherence between the purposes of the curricular unit, the program and the learning outcomes and put in perspective the future professional exercise on an advanced technological basis and, therefore, with less space to arbitrariness, as if it is a determinant for high sport today and tomorrow.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Knowledge of the simple tools for biomechanical assessment and analysis obtained at undergraduate level (1st Cycle).

Program

1. Epistemological framework of biomechanics: definition and concepts
2. The importance of biomechanics in the conceptual structure of the trainer. Biomechanics and bioenergetics: energy availability and use - sport biophysics
3. The importance of biomechanics in different sports
    3.1. Cyclic and closed sports
    3.2. Acyclic and open sports
4. The biomechanicist in multidisciplinary technical teams
5. Introduction to evaluation and research in Biomechanics using advanced methods      
    5.1. Fundamental principles of mechanics
        5.1.1. Linear Mechanics
        5.1.2. Angular Mechanics
    5.2. Methods in biomechanical evaluation and applications
        5.2.1. Cinemetry
        5.2.1.1. Light-based cinemetry
        5.2.1.2. Inertial cinemetry
        5.2.1.3. Other cinemetric solutions
        5.2.2. Dynamometry
            5.2.2.1. Load Cells
            5.2.2.2. Force plates
            5.2.2.3. Pressure transducers
            5.2.2.4. Dedicated dynamometers
            5.2.2.5. Dynamometyric customization
        5.2.3. Electromyography
            5.2.3.1. Intrusive EMG
            5.2.3.2. Surface EMG
            5.2.3.3. dEMG
        5.2.4. Biomechanical Anthropometry
            5.2.4.1.Dimensional characteristics
            5.2.4.2. Inertial properties
        5.2.5. Thermography in biomechanics
6. Preparation of the second semestre curricular units of Biomechanics

Mandatory literature

Robertson, G.; Caldwell, G.; Hamill, J.; Kamen, G.; Whittles; Research Methods in Biomechanics-2nd Edition, HKP, 2014. ISBN: 9780736093408
Roger Bartlet; Introduction to sports biomechanics. ISBN: 0-419-20840-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching theory / exposition (in person or at distance) intercalated with the resolution of problems resulting from experience for the application of theoretical concepts, with interpretation of the results obtained.
Work done by the students.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	10,00
Estudo autónomo	20,00
Frequência das aulas	14,00
Trabalho escrito	10,00
Total:	54,00

Eligibility for exams

Participation in 75% of classes

Calculation formula of final grade

Average of written and project wor

Examinations or Special Assignments

Students in special conditions of attendance of the Curricular Unit, such as Working Students, for example, who cannot attend classes, must complete a complementary written work on the contents of the Curricular Unit, whose classification will be averaged with the evaluation works common to all students.

Classification improvement

Presentation of new works