Scientific and theoretical justification of the physical training program for amateur athletes in non-Olympic triathlon programs

Abstract

Introduction. Today, modern sports triathlon at non-Olympic distances is gaining more and more popularity, especially among amateur athletes who seek to combine their own physical fitness with a high level of self-realization. Triathlon, as a multi-disciplinary sport, requires a high level of physical fitness, in particular special endurance, speed-strength abilities, and coordination, this is due to the fact that non-Olympic triathlon programs cover different distances: sprint, “Olympic distance”, “Half-Ironman”, “Ironman”, etc. The main problem of sports training of amateur athletes in triathlon is ensuring a systematic and balanced educational and training process, where the main reason for this is the lack of time that an amateur triathlete can allocate for training due to work, household obligations, as well as the lack of both financial and material resources, in particular, payment of a club subscription, access to specialized equipment and modern technologies for monitoring training indicators. Thus, today it is relevant to develop an author’s program of the structure and content of physical training, which will ensure the effective combination of the three disciplines of triathlon, allowing to optimize the load and use the limited time and available resources as effectively as possible, in the system of private sports clubs.

The purpose of the study: to scientifically substantiate the structure and content of physical training of amateur athletes in the non-Olympic triathlon program, in the system of private sports clubs.

Research methods: analysis and synthesis of scientific and methodological literature, program and regulatory material and Internet resources.

Research results. The purpose of the author’s program is to improve the structure and content of physical training in triathlon, which consists in the comprehensive development and improvement of physical abilities and functional capabilities of amateur athletes to achieve high sports results in non-Olympic triathlon programs. It provides for organizational and pedagogical conditions, methods of sports training, forms of organization and a comprehensive focus. The educational and training process of amateur athletes in non-Olympic triathlon programs during the annual training has a two-cycle (milked) macrocycle structure. The total annual amount of training time is 422.5 hours, of which 166 hours are specially organized training on the basis of private clubs, and 256.5 hours are independent classes. The first cycle of the macrostructure, in the process of preparing for participation in competitions under the “Olympic distance” program, is 172 hours (74.5 hours for specially organized training and 97.5 hours for independent classes). The second macrostructure cycle, which is aimed at preparing for the Ironman World Series competitions, is 250.5 hours (91.5 hours for specially organized training and 159 hours for independent training). The volume of general physical training is planned to be from 25% to 45%, special physical training – from 20% to 70%, depending on the macrostructure cycle, period and tasks of the mesocycle.

Research methods: analysis and synthesis of scientific and methodological literature, program and regulatory material and Internet resources.