Training of 14-15 year old cross-country skiers in the pre-competition period in the Republic of Karelia

Abstract

Objective of the work: to develop a training system for 14-15 year old cross-country skiers in the summer-autumn preparatory period to improve their competitive results. Material and methods of the study. Study and analysis of scientific and methodological literature on the research problem; completion of control tasks; pedagogical experiment; statistical processing of the obtained data. Results of the study. Analysis of the obtained results of changes in general physical fitness allows us to note a tendency for improvement of all indicators in both groups. However, no particularly high increase in indicators was noted for any control exercise. The individual results of cross-country skiers in five control exercises improved in 90% of cases and remained at the same level in only 10% of cases among subjects in the experimental group. In the control group, the results of subjects improved in 78% of cases and remained unchanged in 22%. According to the data obtained, athletes in the experimental group statistically significantly improved their results in the 10 km freestyle distance compared to athletes in the control group. Conclusions. The results of the conducted research show that the developed and tested systems of training cross-country skiers in the summer-autumn preparatory period give a clear positive effect, expressed in the improvement of the results of general and special physical fitness.