Exercise science

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The exercise science is a sub-discipline of sports science and deals with the subject of sports training , performance and competition.

Training methods that improve athletic performance are to be found and optimized in this. This is not a narrow science that deals with a single question, but it integrates the partial knowledge of several scientific disciplines, such as the natural sciences , sports medicine and psychology . Training science also uses performance diagnostics to monitor success .

The training theory is characterized as the aligned to the practical switching part, while the Athletics Training conducts basic research. Both areas flow into one another and complement and influence one another. Sports practice benefits from both and at the same time serves as a field of research.

Sports training is often based on empirically unsecured methods, which sometimes leads to violent controversies and, above all, offends the trainers. Many training methods result from many years of sport or game practice by a coach. On the basis of the athletes' successes in important competitions, their training methods were often researched in detail and new training methods developed. The competition usually shows whether these training methods are really effective. Whether athletes get the best performance out of a competition depends on many variables that can only be controlled with the help of the periodization of athletic training , but are still difficult to control. We speak of training control, genetics, motivation, performance, resilience, physical and mental health or social environment, to name just a few.

Training science tries to examine individual athletic training and to empirically prove it through studies and thus optimize it.

In the former GDR , training science was the core area of ​​sports science, around which the other areas of sports science were grouped.

literature

  • A. Hohmann, M. Lames, M. Letzelter: Introduction to Training Science , 2010, Wiebelsheim, Limpert.
  • K. Hottenrott, G. Neumann: Training science: A textbook in 14 lessons , 2010, Aachen, Meyer & Meyer.
  • Arnd Krüger : Training science and training theory: No text without context, in: Leistungssport 33 (2003), 3, 44 - 46.
  • Arnd Krüger : Popper, Dewey and the theory of training - or what matters is on the seat, in: Leistungssport 33 (2003), 1, 11-16.
  • Arnd Krüger & Paul Kunath: The Development of Sports Science in the Soviet Zone and the GDR, in: W. BUSS, C. BECKER u. a. (Ed.): Sport in the Soviet Zone and the early GDR. Genesis - structures - conditions. Schorndorf: Hofmann 2001, 351 - 366. ISBN 978-3-7780-0909-3 .
  • G. Schnabel, D. Harre, J. Krug: Training theory - training science. Performance, training, competition , 2009, Aachen, Meyer & Meyer.
  • Jürgen Weineck: Optimal training. Performance physiological training with a special focus on children and youth training. , 2009, 16th edition. Balingen: Spitta, ISBN 978-3-938509-96-8 .