Entrenamiento deportivo y complejidadactualizando supuestos teóricos, prácticos e hipótesis de investigación

Abstract

Sport science evolves but prejudices and tacit assumptions in the field favour the presence of pseudo-science in education and professional practice. With an eminently deductive approach, and based on the complexity science, this thesis aims to transform these assumptions offering new theoretical, practical principles and new research hypotheses applied to sports training. First, we suggest a series of interventions aimed at training coaches and trainers and developing their skills to act in complex environments. Second, an understanding of the athlete / team, its performance - related properties, and training and injury processes is offered from the perspective of complex dynamic systems. For the first time is proposed, a) a systematization of theoretical and methodological principles oriented to training from complexity science, b) a redefinition of task constraints and its classification c) to incorporate the property of temporal nesting and circular causality of the constraints to improve the understanding and effectiveness of the training process, d) to explain the mechanisms of sports injury based on the percolation theory, and e) to use connectivity measures as study variables in injury prevention.