COVID-19 restrictions impacted sports training and its human resources. The purpose of this study was to highlight the difficulties faced by Romanian coaches while carrying out online training during the first lockdown. It was assumed that the training coordinates were significantly influenced by distance coaching and that the coaches’ self-perceived efficacy was related to their digital skills. The study involved 407 coaches (62.16% men, 37.84% women), with a mean age of 41.7 ± 10.01 years, who completed an online questionnaire with 16 items. The statistics analysis was both quantitative and qualitative, with a significance level of 95%. T test was used for the training duration and for the differences between the coaches’ seniority. Chi-squared test was applied between sports branches and Anova for the non-parametric data. Correlations and regression model were performed to estimate the relationship between variables. It was revealed that 87.22% of the coaches adjusted their initial objectives and that the IT tools were provided through coaches’ own financial resources for 83.05% of them. Overall, 51.84% of the coaches failed to engage all athletes in online training; for the rest of them, an association with their professional experience and sports branches was demonstrated (χ2(8) = 34.688, p = 0.001). ANOVA confirmed that the ability to use IT tools influenced online training efficiency at p < 0.005. The results emphasized that Romanian coaches encountered difficulties related to training programming, IT use, with consequences on their professional self-efficacy.
This study emphasizes the way Polar Team Pro technical solution is being implemented in competitive football training process, in terms of evaluation and monitoring the official games' parameters of football teams. This ultimate wearable technology allows tracking everyone's performance in the team, in real time, throughout the whole season. Informative reports using different filtering and search criteria are available for the coaching staff, so that a comprehensive image can be revealed about the team as a whole, and about each player performance, according to his position. The continuous flow of information provides an accurate picture of the team evolution during official games, on different components related to a successful performance. The functional, spatial and motor -related parameters, such as GPS player's positioning, speed and distances covered, distances within individual speed zones, accelerations, number of sprints and running speeds, along with heart rate monitoring are recorded by means of a Polar Team Pro sensor (which collects data about heart rate and movements tracked by GPS), a Polar Team Pro web service (cloud-based tracking system) and a Polar Team Pro app (monitoring real-time data, comparing players performance, getting game summaries etc). The individual and team data are stored in a Cloud system, allowing creating athletes profiles, team dynamics and diagnosis of performance level. This paper focuses on revealing a way of using a data base, by means of the Polar Team Pro technology, as a starting point to conceiving training guidelines, for different age groups or/and position of the players, within the team.
Having in perspective a general matrix of conceiving a piece of choreography, this paper explains a personal vision in composing the design of routines for the Romanian Aerobic Gymnastics Senior Team, starting with 2012 until today. This exploration process involves a logical sequence of phases, where several factors complement and reinforce one other: the FIG Code of Points, gymnast evaluation, competition characteristics, structure of choreographic composition, staging choreography and potential changes/improvements in the choreographic design. Staging choreography applies after the inventory of all these factors, here being included: choosing the music theme, selecting the technical difficulty elements, distribution of elements in the competition area, placing elements to the music, building interaction of step sequences and transitions with difficulty elements, and finally, developing and selecting constructions (Pairs, Trio, Group). The existence of the six competition events requires a various choreographic mapping, whose quality is perceived at both visual and kinaesthetic levels, in a particular manner for each of them. The effect of this vision in designing the gymnastics routines has led to a continuous enhancement of the artistic value, and also a new, refreshing choreographic style for the Romanian team, who was positively noticed and appreciated by specialists and judges at the world class competitions in the last four years.
This paper’s purpose was to investigate the correlation between components of the coordinative capacity and the technical elements of rhythmic gymnastics. In the research we investigated 14 gymnasts, through tests assessing the general and specific coordinative capacity (the Matorin, Bruininks-Oseretsky, Bass, Flamingo, spatial-temporal orientation capacity assessment trial, the rhythmic capacity determination test, the body-apparatus coordination assessment trial) and the assessment trials of the technical training (rotations, jumps, balance with the handling of the apparatus). The results obtained from calculating the correlation indices between the coordinative capacities and the technical trials showed that between the jumps and coordinative capacities there are comprised values from - 0.08 to 0.51; the balance elements and coordinative capacities comprise values between - 0.03 and 0.56; the rotations were in the range between - 0.08 and 0.53. These results suggest the importance that has to be given to the coordination capacity development in the sports training.
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