San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) has closed this morning the First International Congress of University Athletics, under the title 'From the introduction to high performance. "
The symposium, organized by the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport (CAFD) of the UCAM, brought together specialists in the practice of athletics nationally and internationally, who have treated this subject from the areas of performance, teaching and management.
The ceremony was chaired by the Vice President for Research UCAM, Estrella Núñez, the Dean of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Antonio Sánchez Pato, and the deputy director of Degree CAFD, Juan Alfonso García.
The doctor of the University of Illinois (Chicago), Gloria Balague, has been in charge of opening the area of management in athletics, with his lecture 'specific psychological preparation for athletics. "
The rapporteur has been designated as essential aspects of motivation in the sport, autonomy and control, competition and capacity, and the relationship and belonging.
Gloria Balague, concluded his lecture by asserting that the psychological training should be carried out in conjunction with physical training.
The last round table conference has been on the field of management in athletics, and has had the participation of the technical sector of the RFEA Saltos, Ramón Cid, and the technical director of the Center for the IAAF High Performance in Havana (Cuba), Ariel Muñiz, who lectured on the management and sector planning breaks to Royal Spanish Athletics Federation, and the training of Cuban athletics champions, respectively.
Performance in athletics.
The first lecture of the symposium given by professor at the University of A Coruña, and a member of the Galician Federation of Athletics, Dr. Isidoro Hob, who has lectured on acceleration capacity in the race and transfer it to sports.
Dr. Hornillos has addressed during her presentation, acceleration and complex quality based on energy efficiency mechanisms and coordinative factors that allows an athlete's movement in the shortest time possible.
On improving this capability, the speaker said that "it will have to exercise at maximum intensity, with full recovery and lasting no longer than six seconds, in general, and has emerged as a major means for improving accelerating the multihop, tows, slopes or evidence synthesis, among others.
Mime the way, the conferences have also given Dr. Filipe Conceicao, Porto University and member of the Portuguese Federation of Athletics, and Professor of the Catholic University of Murcia and member of the Athletics Federation of Murcia, Pedro Alcaraz, that has lectured on the characteristics and effects of resistive methods in the sprint.
Dr. Alcaraz, has argued that the main objective when using resistive methods is to improve the specific strength of the athletes without producing a significant change in their technique. "
Also noteworthy during the day in the morning, the performance 'Track & field' by the pupils of 1 CAFD, which brought together hundreds of students.
During the day in the afternoon were conducted several workshops.
One of them, 'Training of running technique at different stages of the sprint: the analytical work to the global', which was played the gym UCAM Sports Center, will teach attendees new ways to work on running technique focusing on the differences in them, depending on the phase studied.
Education in athletics.
Friday's session revolved around the area of education in athletics.
The doctor at the University of Oporto, and a member of the Portuguese Federation of Athletics, Ramiro Rolim, spoke about how to respond to the urgent challenges of teaching well in school athletics and the club.
During his presentation, Dr. Rolim identified and located the problems and difficulties that contextualize and gravitate to athletics, and said that athletics is becoming less relevant in schools.
"The activity of a physical education teacher has to be as serious as other subjects," he qualified.
Also spoke during the day, through a round table, the doctor at the University of Porto, Rui Garcia, his lecture title "Death in the marathon: a celebration of life ', and Professor of the CAM, and member of the Athletics Federation of Murcia, Antonio Calderon, who spoke on the training of teachers and didactic teaching of athletics.
Source: UCAM