Neurological basis for learning and training sports technique

Abstract

The teaching-learning process of sports technique involves the formation of skills as the basis for automating motor habits. In practice, the predominance of traditional methods is observed under a behavioral approach, scarcely integrating constructivist methods. This article aims to consider the principles of cognitive, theories of motor learning, the theory of movement direction for the understanding of the underlying mechanisms and mental associations that participate in the conformation of the motor program corresponding to the sports technique. Likewise, the neurological processes responsible for the coordinated control of movement and the generation of programs that contain the complex patterns of the motor act are exposed. Through the analysis and synthesis of theoretical postulates and deductive - inductive reasoning, it is concluded that a kinesthetic learning should be encouraged to create the basic coordinative schemes, which allow the central and peripheral nervous system to learn the complex patterns of sports technique. Mental processes and associations that facilitate the creation and connection of cognitive bridges between coordinative schemes, skills and sports technique be considerate.