School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Monitoring Training Loads in Football
  • Unit Code

    SPS3916
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Fadi Yousef MA'AYAH

Description

This unit focuses on team and player monitoring in football. Internal and external methods of monitoring football will be studied and students will gain knowledge on how to develop monitoring system for football. Students will learn how to collect, analyse, and interpret data that ultimately result in training adjustments to optimise performance. Students will undertake practical sessions in the use of video and electronic tracking of players. The unit also explores monitoring of football players using different methods including psychobiological, physical and physiological.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss the need for, and nature of, monitoring football players.
  2. Describe the rationale for employing psychobiological monitoring in football and employ a range of these tools in a practical football environment.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge and practical application of the physiological effects of football training and match stress.
  4. Apply different internal and external monitoring methods to report objective data to coaching staff and players.
  5. Evaluate stress response to training and games and create adaptations in training to measure the risks of over-training, overreaching and prevent sickness and injury in football teams.

Unit Content

  1. Need for, and nature of monitoring football players.
  2. Psychobiological tools for monitoring in football.
  3. The use of heart rate analysis as a monitoring tool in football.
  4. Research tools for athlete monitoring.
  5. Physiological effects of training stress.
  6. Quantifying training stress.
  7. Measures of fitness and fatigue.
  8. Current monitoring practices and technologies.
  9. Integrating monitoring with coaching.
  10. Athlete monitoring guidelines for team sports.
  11. The consequences of illness, injury and overtraining in football players.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars and performance laboratories.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayWritten Performance Analysis Essay 30%
ProjectPractical Performance Analysis Project 35%
ExaminationEnd of Semester Examination35%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Monitoring Training Loads in Football
  • Unit Code

    SPS3916
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Fadi Yousef MA'AYAH

Description

This unit focuses on team and player monitoring in football. Internal and external methods of monitoring football will be studied and students will gain knowledge on how to develop monitoring system for football. Students will learn how to collect, analyse, and interpret data that ultimately result in training adjustments to optimise performance. Students will undertake practical sessions in the use of video and electronic tracking of players. The unit also explores monitoring of football players using different methods including psychobiological, physical and physiological.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss the need for, and nature of, monitoring football players.
  2. Describe the rationale for employing psychobiological monitoring in football and employ a range of these tools in a practical football environment.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge and practical application of the physiological effects of football training and match stress.
  4. Apply different internal and external monitoring methods to report objective data to coaching staff and players.
  5. Evaluate stress response to training and games and create adaptations in training to measure the risks of over-training, overreaching and prevent sickness and injury in football teams.

Unit Content

  1. Need for, and nature of monitoring football players.
  2. Psychobiological tools for monitoring in football.
  3. The use of heart rate analysis as a monitoring tool in football.
  4. Research tools for athlete monitoring.
  5. Physiological effects of training stress.
  6. Quantifying training stress.
  7. Measures of fitness and fatigue.
  8. Current monitoring practices and technologies.
  9. Integrating monitoring with coaching.
  10. Athlete monitoring guidelines for team sports.
  11. The consequences of illness, injury and overtraining in football players.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars and performance laboratories.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayWritten Performance Analysis Essay 30%
ProjectPractical Performance Analysis Project 35%
ExaminationEnd of Semester Examination35%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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