Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Team Sports: Contextualizing Training and Competition Demands

Download or read book Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Team Sports: Contextualizing Training and Competition Demands written by Miguel-Angel Gomez-Ruano and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-12-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Team sports performance is determined by the complex, non-linear interaction of several factors, including physical and physiological aspects, technical-tactical constraints, mental demands, perceptual and emotional aspects, and contextual and environmental factors. The influence of each of these aspects has been previously investigated. However, studies have often employed monodimensional perspectives, looking at one, or only a few different domains concurrently. In football and rugby, extensive efforts have been produced to contextualize the demands of training and competition based on players’ characteristics, tactical constraints, and contextual factors. This information facilitates coaches in selecting the most appropriate training and competition strategies based on a number of different factors, including the team and the opponents’ characteristics, technical-tactical abilities, fitness status, and considering contextual factors. Differently, there is a lack of information on contextualized competition demands in other team sports, such as basketball, handball, futsal, and volleyball. Furthermore, the mental demands and psychological and emotional implications of team sports have received little or monodimensional attention, limiting the applicability of findings in real-life scenarios where a multitude of factors belonging to different disciplines (e.g., physiology, psychology, training science, social sciences) need to be taken into account.