Training should adapt to the athlete´s personality, which enables him/her to achieve the highest individual performance by developing the functional possibilities of the cyclist, ensuring a perfect mastery of rational techniques, developing his/her moral and wilful qualities, enabling him/her to gain practical and theoretical knowledge and influence the versatile development of his/her personality. Cycling training is characterized by extraordinary stress, high volume, and intensity, which only exceptionally disposed of individuals, can handle. The difficulty of training requires the athletes to adapt their living regime to training and competition conditions.
The innovation of this project lies in:
- identification of the newest trends in sports theory and practice;
- joint collaboration among experts from different countries and settings;
- co-production of innovative training content using digital technologies.
Project C-Trends is a European project, which involves six partners from different geographical areas, representing a very diverse mix between central and southwestern European and Mediterranean organisations active in the field of cycling. They have all joined the partnership to collaborate internationally to co-create different project outputs that will benefit them all. This European collaboration is based not only in the exchange of expertise, trends, best practices to get an insight into international cycling innovations but also in the production of digitalised outputs that will be used by their organisations to provide education and training to their members, targets of this project.
This collaborative partnership gathers six European partners: two cycling federations, a Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, one sports club, one centre for performance excellence in cycling and a leading research & development centre.
Aim
The aim Cycling Trends in Education, Training and Diagnosis is to design, develop and test attractive and interactive training materials on sports performance in different cycling disciplines specifically adapted to the current technical equipment and rules. These materials contain new, more updated procedures and methods and will constitute a starting point for improving training programs based on newest findings in sports theory and practice. The developed materials contribute towards sustaining trainers in their skills development and support them in increasing their qualification as trainers/coaches and high-level athletes.
The project aims to:
- Contribute towards sustaining trainers in their knowledge, skills, and competence development;
- Exchange expertise and good practice at the expert level and identify new trends in cycling;
- Share existent training tools & methods;
- Create synergies & cooperation at the international level among organisations that excel in cycling;
- Jointly design, develop, and test materials that will enhance the abovementioned;
- To promote the benefits of cycling.
The project produces the following outcomes:
IO1: IO1 – Digital Platform & Interactive Resources providing trainers and cyclists of all ages and performance levels with OER (Open educational resources) in five disciplines (road cycling, track cycling, mountain biking, cyclocross, cycling for the disabled) and containing relevant and updated information in different areas of cycling; available in six languages: English, Slovak, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Greek.
IO2: Methodological E-Guide for Trainers containing methodological guidelines for trainers and professional cyclists to improve their training and sports performance in five disciplines (road cycling, track cycling, mountain biking, cyclocross, cycling for the disabled); available in six languages: English, Slovak, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Greek.
The output contains the methodological guidelines for trainers with a compilation of materials and resources, which help trainers to improve their sports performance and eliminate risks from over-training and/or performing inappropriate structure of training load, improve their dietary needs and mental health and many others.
IO3: Software Development consisting of a software solution to help professional athletes to better and more precisely plan their training in view of maximising their performance for a specific race/deadline.
Until now, it has only been possible to use correlation and regression analysis of the series of intra-individual monitoring of athletes' condition in relation to their exercise load, which is very time-consuming and not user-friendly for everyday sports life. Current data mining options facilitate research and real impact on the training load of athlete performance changes. The project developed a methodology for data collection, application of the programme and interpretation of the acquired knowledge.
This software is based on the numerical expression of the training load (its quantitative and qualitative indicators quantified over a precisely defined period) and numerical expressions of the level of sports performance (achieved performance in motor tests, racings, etc.) will determine the significance of the interrelation of these variables (training performance) with time shifts in the dependency rate from 2 to 6 weeks.
The Slovak Cycling Federation or SZC (in Slovak: Slovenský zväz cyklistiky) is the national governing body of cycle racing in Slovakia. Slovak Cycling Association provides physical activities in forms of sport for all and amateur and professional cycling. We have app. 210 registered clubs and over 2800 memberships. Their coaches help them to develop cycling and help young talents to become best riders. Cycling clubs cooperate with municipalities and the association of towns and municipalities for effective assistance at the regional level to ensure action or event. We are members of Slovak Olympic committee. We are partly financed by the state budget, partly by sponsors.
Slovak Cycling Federation organize race for young called Young Tour of Peter Sagan and race on the UCI and UEC level. Slovak Cycling Federation organized Congress of the UEC in May 2015 where delegates from 43 European countries were present, among them cycling federations from European Union. With cooperation and by developing cycling they promote and recommended way active lifestyle to the general public, especially children and youth.
Slovak Cycling Federations is the main promoter or the Tour of Slovakia, which is organised on a yearly basis. Last 3 editions were broadcasted on Eurosport, last year with approx. 200.000 direct viewers. Eurosport broadcast was distributed across 54 countries inEurope, in 144 M households for Eurosport1 channel, and in 65 M households for Eurosport2.
CARDET is one of the leading research and training centers in the eastern Mediterranean region with global expertise in project design and implementation, project management, training and e-learning. CARDET has completed numerous projects relating to the development of adult and vocational training initiatives in the areas of social work, innovation and entrepreneurship. Members of its team and board represent European and International Higher education institutions, training centers and international organizations, and have in-depth knowledge of the adult training sector and financial literacy area while CARDET focuses in the promotion of social justice and social progress. CARDET brings together an international team of experts with decades of global expertise in adult training, capacity building, curriculum development, social entrepreneurship, vocational training, design thinking, innovation, education research, evaluation, and human resource development.
Maiêutica is the founding body of University Institute of Maia - ISMAI (founded in 1990) and Polytechnic Institute of Maia – IPMAIA (founded in 2015). It is a private non-profit HEI located in Maia, in the metropolitan area of Porto - the second largest city in Portugal. Maiêutica has experience in several international projects, such as Erasmus+ and other EU funded projects: coordinators of 6 Erasmus+: KA2 and Collaborative Partnerships (Sports) and partners in several Erasmus+, INTERREG, etc. The main topics addressed are sports dual careers, healthy lifestyle, career guidance, gamification, circular economy, capacity building in HE, community-based research, sign language, early childhood education, European identity, psychotherapy training, blockchain, among others.
The aim of the Movement Health Recreational Sports Club (MER SE) is to promote sport, movement, healthy lifestyle and related values through its core activity. The sportclub and its members believe that in today's circumstances young people's interest in technical devices can be linked to physical activity in the open air, in nature, which improves the human cardiovascular and respiratory system, metabolism and the motor system optimally. In recent years, in addition to organising sporting events for amateurs, the association has also organised professional sporting events with the support of Hungary Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. By 2022, the sportclub has been awarded the right to organise the Elit Indoor Cycling European Championships.
EntrenamientoCiclismo is a multidisciplinary company related to cycling. The aim of our company is to improve the health of our cyclists and get the maximal performance. Knowledge and experience are the key to offer the best cycling service. All workers have University Degrees, experience training cyclists for years, and other activities. To offer the best service, we have been working with the Spanish National Team in a new project started two years ago (experience in the high performance) and keep learning with professional development (working at Universities, online formations, webinars). Cycling training is probably our most demanded service due to the fact that we work with all kinds of cyclists and disciplines. TrainingPeaks is the software used for training and we offer 3 different deals with one to one meetings monthly or online communication. Same with nutrition, another important way to improve health and performance (always adapted to the cyclist training calendar). Other services necessary for health are exercise stress test (checking any heart disease and physiology information), biomechanical (injury prevention), psychology, personal training and cycling.
The Faculty of Physical Education and Sports is one of the 13 faculties of the Comenius University in Bratislava. Comenius University is the oldest and largest university in Slovakia. Since 1960, the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport has been providing education for sports professionals (trainers, instructors, teachers) and conducting research in the field of physical education and sports. The faculty promotes scientific, research, developmental, educational, editorial, sports and other creative activities in accredited study programmes.
Faculty’s fundamental mission is to provide higher education by means of accredited study programmes, enhance body-mind equilibrium, disseminate knowledge and wisdom, patience and the good in humans and to contribute to the development of science, culture, sports and health for the whole society. It fulfils its aim and priorities by promoting the values of democracy, humanism, tolerance, honour and European solidarity. It emphasizes creative, critical and independent thinking, reasonable self-confidence and national pride.
Project Overview
Training should adapt to the athlete´s personality, which enables him/her to achieve the highest individual performance by developing the functional possibilities of the cyclist, ensuring a perfect mastery of rational techniques, developing his/her moral and wilful qualities, enabling him/her to gain practical and theoretical knowledge and influence the versatile development of his/her personality. Cycling training is characterized by extraordinary stress, high volume, and intensity, which only exceptionally disposed of individuals, can handle. The difficulty of training requires the athletes to adapt their living regime to training and competition conditions.
The innovation of this project lies in:
- identification of the newest trends in sports theory and practice;
- joint collaboration among experts from different countries and settings;
- co-production of innovative training content using digital technologies.
Project C-Trends is a European project, which involves six partners from different geographical areas, representing a very diverse mix between central and southwestern European and Mediterranean organisations active in the field of cycling. They have all joined the partnership to collaborate internationally to co-create different project outputs that will benefit them all. This European collaboration is based not only in the exchange of expertise, trends, best practices to get an insight into international cycling innovations but also in the production of digitalised outputs that will be used by their organisations to provide education and training to their members, targets of this project.
This collaborative partnership gathers six European partners: two cycling federations, a Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, one sports club, one centre for performance excellence in cycling and a leading research & development centre.
Aim & Objectives
Aim
The aim Cycling Trends in Education, Training and Diagnosis is to design, develop and test attractive and interactive training materials on sports performance in different cycling disciplines specifically adapted to the current technical equipment and rules. These materials contain new, more updated procedures and methods and will constitute a starting point for improving training programs based on newest findings in sports theory and practice. The developed materials contribute towards sustaining trainers in their skills development and support them in increasing their qualification as trainers/coaches and high-level athletes.
The project aims to:
- Contribute towards sustaining trainers in their knowledge, skills, and competence development;
- Exchange expertise and good practice at the expert level and identify new trends in cycling;
- Share existent training tools & methods;
- Create synergies & cooperation at the international level among organisations that excel in cycling;
- Jointly design, develop, and test materials that will enhance the abovementioned;
- To promote the benefits of cycling.
Outputs
The project produces the following outcomes:
IO1: IO1 – Digital Platform & Interactive Resources providing trainers and cyclists of all ages and performance levels with OER (Open educational resources) in five disciplines (road cycling, track cycling, mountain biking, cyclocross, cycling for the disabled) and containing relevant and updated information in different areas of cycling; available in six languages: English, Slovak, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Greek.
IO2: Methodological E-Guide for Trainers containing methodological guidelines for trainers and professional cyclists to improve their training and sports performance in five disciplines (road cycling, track cycling, mountain biking, cyclocross, cycling for the disabled); available in six languages: English, Slovak, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Greek.
The output contains the methodological guidelines for trainers with a compilation of materials and resources, which help trainers to improve their sports performance and eliminate risks from over-training and/or performing inappropriate structure of training load, improve their dietary needs and mental health and many others.
IO3: Software Development consisting of a software solution to help professional athletes to better and more precisely plan their training in view of maximising their performance for a specific race/deadline.
Until now, it has only been possible to use correlation and regression analysis of the series of intra-individual monitoring of athletes' condition in relation to their exercise load, which is very time-consuming and not user-friendly for everyday sports life. Current data mining options facilitate research and real impact on the training load of athlete performance changes. The project developed a methodology for data collection, application of the programme and interpretation of the acquired knowledge.
This software is based on the numerical expression of the training load (its quantitative and qualitative indicators quantified over a precisely defined period) and numerical expressions of the level of sports performance (achieved performance in motor tests, racings, etc.) will determine the significance of the interrelation of these variables (training performance) with time shifts in the dependency rate from 2 to 6 weeks.
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