1. Introduction
  2. Benefits of core training for older people
  3. Core training during pregnancy
  4. Core training and other special populations
  5. Why practice core training following the methodology of this manual?

  1. Areas of action in physical activity and sport
  2. Sport for all
  3. Grassroots sport
  4. Competitive sport
  5. High-performance sport as a mass spectacle

  1. Introduction
  2. The structure of the macrocycle in Matveyev's classical model
  3. The traditional periodisation model and its correspondence to the core training phases
  4. Guidance for implementation
  5. Annual distribution of sessions in phases and micro-cycles
  6. Characteristics of the core session
  7. The equipment used in the core training sessions
  8. Instability-inducing materials
  9. The fitball
  10. The foam roller
  11. Equipment used in the aquatic environment

  1. Introduction
  2. Evaluation in core training
  3. Distribution of controls during an annual training cycle

  1. Introduction
  2. The material means in the proposed core training exercises
  3. Unstable platforms
  4. The fitball
  5. The foam roller
  6. Equipment used in the aquatic environment
  7. Development of the sessions during the macrocycle
  8. Model Session No. 1
  9. Model Session No. 2
  10. Model Session No. 3
  11. Model Session No. 4
  12. Model Session No. 5
  13. Model Session No. 6
  14. Model Session No. 7
  15. Model Session No. 8
  16. Model Session No. 9
  17. Supplementary pair type session no. 10
  18. Complementary type session in the aquatic environment no. 11

  1. Introduction
  2. Individual exercises
  3. Initial or adaptation phase: Static stability exercises
  4. Build-up or development phase: dynamic stability exercises
  5. Advanced or specialisation phase: Dynamic stability exercises with loads
  6. Complementary exercises in pairs
  7. Complementary exercises in the aquatic environment