Objectives and competences
Objectives:
• To train students understanding and using the Physical laws in various movement exercises, which require muscle-skeletal system.
• Students acquire basic knowledge about biomechanical analysis as a basis for programming, execution, and control of different sports disciplines.
Competences:
• Ability to apply basic laws of biomechanics to practical work as a sports coach.
• Ability of a coach that with the knowledge of basics of biomechanics he/she is able to correctly analyses and evaluates sports elements.
• Ability of guiding a sportsman in all the phases of planned and realised training, and helping him to more successful work.
Content (Syllabus outline)
• Introduction to biomechanics: presentation of the field.
• Basics of kinematics of rigid body, balance of forces and torques, conditions of balance, geometrical characteristics of human body, basics of fluid mechanics.
• Basics of dynamics and Newton’s laws.
• Biomechanical characteristics of muscular-skeletal organic system of human body: muscles, bones and joints. Dynamic and static part of organic locomotive system of human body.
• The evaluation of kinematical dimensions of movement: kinematical measuring system, reference points, digitalisation of signal, revision of linear and angular mistakes.
• Electromyography: measurement with surface electrodes, differential detection and increasing of EMG signals.
Learning and teaching methods
• Lectures
• Seminar
• Practical work
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
• Gaining basic knowledge from the field of biomechanics.
• Understand the need for using mechanical laws in various sports activities.
• Understand synergic effects of mechanical laws in execution of various sports techniques and elements, which cannot be analysed correctly without certain biomechanical knowledge.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Study is intended to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge from the field of biomechanical laws, which accompany all sports disciplines. The knowledge allows the coach to analyse correctly and evaluate a certain sports element, which is also graphically documented. In many sports an efficient and correct training is not possible without biomechanical approach. It helps to guide a sportsman in all the phases of planned and realised training and helps him to more successful work without disrupting the planning process in the training.
Readings
• Supej M., Biomehanika 1, Učbenik za študente Fakultete za šport UL, Ljubljana, 2011.
• Dželalija M., Biomehanika sporta, Fakultet prirodoslovno-matematičkih znanosti i odgojnih područja, Split, 2005.
• Winter D., Biomechanics and motor control of human movement – 4th Ed., John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, 2009.
• Humphrey J.D., O'Rourke S.L., An Introduction to Biomechanics: Solids and Fluids, Analysis and Design, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, 2015.
Prerequisits
Prerequisits for acceding the course:
None.
Conditions for prerequisits:
Accomplished obligations given during tutorials and lectures are the necessary condition for participating in the written exam.
Additional information on implementation and assessment • Written exam (70%)
• Seminar work (30%)
