Table 2 Training or synergizing? Contrast of methodological principles
From: Training or Synergizing? Complex Systems Principles Change the Understanding of Sport Processes
Approach | Training (traditional) | Synergizing (complex systems) |
|---|---|---|
Programs | Fixed training programs | Contextually sensitive methodological criteria |
Performers | Executers | Co-designers of the process |
Periodization | Fixed, decontextualized | Contextually sensitive |
Conditioning, skill acquisition, motor abilities training | Prescription-based | Based on nested dependence and circular causality of constraints |
Training unit | Performers and their components Players (team sports) | Performer-environment system Team (team sports) |
Short-term training plan | Based on stereotyped performance solutions and movement templates | Based on exploration of representative performance contexts |
Training tasks | Non-representative (through task decomposition) | High level of representativeness (through task simplification) and beyond |
Training exercises criteria | Right/wrong | Contextually (un)functional |
Evaluation | Fragmented | Holistic |
Role of the coach | Prescribing solutions | Co-discovering with the performer |