Research at Faculty of Sports Studies of Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic www.fsps.muni.cz Jan Novotný novotny@fsps.muni.cz Jitka Kopřivová koprivova@fsps.muni.cz Šárka Dvořáková dvorakova@fsps.muni.cz

Faculty of Sports Studies in Brno STUDY PROGRAMS Bachelor's + Master's degree: Animator of physical activities Physical education and sport Regeneration and nutrition in sport Special training of security forces doctoral (PhD) in Czech + English: Kinanthropology (69 students) DEPARTMENTS: Kinanthropology Sports Education Sports Activities Social Sciences Sports Medicine and Salutiferous P.E. founded 2002 1200 students

Kinanthropology main scientific discipline at FSpS human movement (kinesiology, sports science, …) trans-disciplinary science structural and development kinanthropology (physics, biomechanics, kinesiology etc. – bases of human dispositions and abilities to motion) social, cultural, and pedagogical kinanthropology (philosophy, psychology, sociology, etc. – its aspects to human motion, at first in P.E. and sport) medical kinanthropology (anatomy, physiology, sports medicine - regeneration, nutrition, stress tests, functional disorders, injuries etc. – in cooperation with paediatrics, orthopaedics, ...) Czech Society of Kinanthropology, journal „Czech Kinanthropology“

SAMPLES OF LAST RESEARCH Approaches to people´s groups and their physical activities: functional state of locomotion apparatus in school children testing of physical fitness of pupils in CZ relations between sports movement activities and mental health in adolescents cardiorespiratory and metabolic reaction and adaptation to physical exercises in I type diabetics knowledge base of expert system for sport activity regulation in I type diabetics (with fuzzy logic) cardiac risk evaluation in exercising children after oncological treatment (spectral analysis of heart rate variability) aqua-exercise like a part of prevention against osteoporosis Approaches to sportsmen: key points that determine the maximum speed of top-class breast stroke swimmers dynamic – balance abilities of langlaufers in schoolboy level biomechanics in sprinter´s motion Others: special physical exercise programs related to improving co-ordination abilities

PRESENT AND NEXT RESEARCH Approaches to people's groups and their physical activities: exercise activities and physical fitness of seniors exercise for improving of mental and physical state of seniors leisure-time physical activities in children co-ordinative motion abilities of sight impaired youth fitness tests of hearing impaired youth Approaches to sportsmen and their problems: functional muscle disorders and compensatory exercises doping abuse prevention in Czech young sportsmen somatic changes and physical stress intensity during mountain expedition criterion for selection of pupils to basketball training centres Approaches to diagnostic methods and tests: reliability of somatic height prediction dynamometric evaluation of speed and endurance abilities in athletes diagnostics of spine position and muscles function, corrective exercises for people with sedentary life style, and sportsmen

Faculty of Sport Studies international conference organizer Languages: Czech - Slovak, English Conference of Kinanthropology in Brno November 10-11, 2005 www.fsps.muni.cz First student's scientific conference of Kinanthropology of FSpS in Brno SPORT IN SCIENCE – SCIENCE IN SPORT February 17-18, 2005 Co-operative congress of Faculty of Physical Culture in Olomouc and Czech Society of Sports Medicine (www.cstl.cz) MOVEMENT AND HEALTH November 23-25, 2005

INTER-UNIVERSITY PERMEABILITY FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS (Ph. D INTER-UNIVERSITY PERMEABILITY FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS (Ph.D.) OF KINANTHROPOLOGY and similar branches, e.g.: sport sciences, physical education, kinesiology etc. DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Faculty of Sports Studies in Brno supported by Ministry of CR for Education, Youth and Sport 2004-2005 More informations - in a next lecture „Doctoral Studies of Kinanthropology at Faculty of Sports Studies …“ and in www.fsps.cz Thank you for your attention.