Periodização no treinamento esportivo: a importância do conhecimento do profissional de educação física

Abstract

Currently, sports practitioners are always in search of qualified professional to help them achieve their goals effectively without risks that can interfere negatively in their performance. However, some professionals neglect the knowledge that supports them to provide a good planning of the training, such as the periodization model, and prescribe training in a superficial way, submitting the individual to risks. Due to this, the objective of the present study is to present the importance of the knowledge of periodization for the physical educator who works with sports training in order to make both athletes and educators aware of the importance for technical and scientific knowledge to assemble and structure a training based upon periodization model. We must also consider that the professional´s role goes beyond training, since he/she is still responsible for planning and monitoring the training, making necessary interventions and avoiding situations of risk for the practitioner to reach the desired goal.