Certificate in Basketball Training Process Optimization
Until 2018, basketball had the affiliation of 450 million participants distributed in 213 national federations, divided, in turn, into 5 continental federations. This sport is widely spread in the United States and Europe, being the 2nd most played sport in Spain with almost 3 million federative licenses. In 2000, the attack time and the time allowed to pass the midfield line were reduced from 30 to 24 seconds and from 10 to 8 seconds respectively by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). Furthermore, the total length of the game was divided into four quarters instead of the original two halves, keeping the total 40 minutes. In this way, professional basketball suffers from an increase in physical and physiological demands, as evidenced by different studies (Ben Abdelkrim N, 2007, Bruno Cormery, et al., 2008). Hence, fitness or physical preparation is considered a requirement to compete in modern elite basketball (Sallet P, et al. 2005). Furthermore, understanding the effect of workload outcomes on sports performance and injury prevention is considered crucial for strength and fitness trainers, sports scientists, and sports medicine. Collective sports in general, and basketball in particular, have based their physical training on the training theory used for individual sports, particularly athletics, so they require a new approach which adapts to their own characteristics and needs. Furthermore, technological advances have provided new tools for physical trainers, sports scientists and coaches, allowing, among other things, the control and assessment of the workload produced by training sessions and/or competitions. Hence, it is necessary to know this new approach, based on holistic physical training, to apply it to modern basketball with the main objective of optimizing performance and preventing injuries.
- Category: Football Coaching
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 4 months
- Price: 675 EUR
Official courses from Barça Innovation Hub, FC Barcelona's educational arm, with experts who have worked inside the club. Earn an accredited certificate issued by the hub, available across the Middle East and North Africa through Champions Hub, its official partner for the fifth year.
What you will learn
- Analyse how physical demands condition basketball practice
- Analyse basketball physical and technical-tactical demands
- Know the theoretical framework of the new training approach
- Design training sessions in the structured microcycle
Course content
- Module 1: Physical demands and injury risks in team sports
- Physical demands in team sports
- Application of microtechnology to optimise performance in team sports
- Application of microtechnology to prevent injuries in team sports
- Application of inertial systems in different tests in team sports
- Module 2: Basketball physical demands during competition
- Basketball physical and tactical demands. From videos to local positioning systems
- Application of inertial systems to quantify and interpret physical demands in basketball
- Application of positioning systems (global and local) to quantify and interpret physical demands in basketball
- Most frequent injuries (types and mechanisms) in basketball and maximum demand scenarios in basketball
- Module 3: Basketball training from FC Barcelona’s perspective: theoretical approach
- Structured training
- Coadjuvant training
- Optimising training
- Structured microcycle
- Module 4: Basketball training proposal from the perspective of FC Barcelona
- Practical application of the previously worked contents to optimize performance and prevent injuries, prioritising conditional structure