2053 - ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL TRAINING

Subject type: Optional

Coordinator: A hard tackle from Víctor Illera to Domínguez

Trimester: Second term

Credits: 6

Academic year: 2025

Teaching course: 4

• Spanish

Classes will be taught in Spanish. In addition, there may be some materials in the English language. The teacher knows the 3 languages ​​and the students can address them in any of them.

Assignments, practicals and exams can be answered in Catalan or Spanish.

Physical activity and current sport have two main clear objectives: to obtain the maximum possible performance and to safeguard the health of those who practice it. To achieve this, we must be able to design and apply different exercises that meet these two maxims.

Knowing what to do, why to do it and how to do it, is crucial to the good outcome of the process.

Functional means that it has a purpose and that it is in relation to the goal we have set ourselves. Functional is what really prepares the person or athlete for the sport or activity for which he trains.

Data and variables that may be related to their performance and health will be managed, and the training process will be seen as an integrated set of decisions and actions. The integration of conditional variables and their functional assessment offers a careful, demanding and confident knowledge of what each sport is like, how it is played, how it is trained and how it should be trained, redefining training under functionality.

The classroom (physical or virtual) is a safe space, free of sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic and discriminatory attitudes, either towards students or towards teachers. We trust that together we can create a safe space where we can make mistakes and learn without having to suffer prejudice from others. 

The use of AI in this subject is regulated in the learning plan.

Topic 1. Functional Training

1.1 Contextualization of Functional Training

Topic 2. Understanding Force Based on Movement

2.1 Everything is Strength: Strength, speed, resistance, ADM (Range of Movement), coordination... based on human movement as the backbone of the exercise proposals

2.2 Type of work according to the type of muscle contraction: Muscle and movement

2.3 Dynamic correspondence

2.4 Levels of approach to movement functionality

2.5 Analysis and application of various materials for functional strength training

Topic 3. Functional Evaluation

3.1 Evaluation of dynamic stability. Tests, measuring instruments, analysis techniques and interpretation of results

3.2 Evaluation of the Force: Activation, quantity, quality and speed in the generation of force. Tests, measuring instruments, analysis techniques and interpretation of results

3.3 Functional evaluation of the ADM: Elongation capacity and contractile capacity of the muscle. Tests, measuring instruments, analysis techniques and interpretation of results

3.4 Functional evaluation of speed. Tests, measuring instruments, analysis techniques and interpretation of results

3.5 Functional evaluation of resistance. Tests, measuring instruments, analysis techniques and interpretation of results

Topic 4. Adaptation of Functional Training to the Context

4.1 High Performance

4.2 Health

4.3 Education

Qualification system (Royal Decree 1125/2003, of 5 September, which establishes the European credit system and the system of qualifications for university degrees of an official nature and valid throughout the state):

0 - 4,9: Suspension (SS)

5,0 - 6,9: Approved (AP)

7,0 - 8,9: Notable (NT)

9,0 - 10: Outstanding (SB)

The final grade of the student is the result of a continuous assessment through different assessment activities. The pass of the subject is obtained with a grade equal to or higher than 5 points (out of 10 points) according to the following weighting table:

NECESSARY criteria to average between the assessment activities as well as to approve the subject.:

IMPORTANT:

The exam cannot be suspended, a grade above 5/10 must be obtained.

The final average of the subject must be higher than 5/10

A minimum of 60% of the practical classes must be attended to be able to access the continuous assessment.

Recovery

In accordance with current regulations, in the evaluation activity of the exam, you can only opt for the recovery of the subject, if it has been suspended. 

If the final average of the subject is lower than 5 and therefore it is suspended, it will have to be recovered. The following scenarios can occur:

- Final exam suspended: subject suspended regardless of average. The exam must be retaken with a grade higher than 5.

- Final exam passed and grade suspended due to continuous assessment: Continuous assessment must be approved.

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