MTUCI has discovered effective methods for preparing sprinters for competitions.

According to research, when preparing for sports competitions, the intensity of training should sometimes exceed the intensity required during official events. In sprinting, for example, this can be addressed by performing exercises under challenging, easier, and normal conditions during training, combined in a specific sequence.

“Methods for complicating the conditions of exercise can be divided into two groups: natural conditions of difficulty (running on sand, uphill, on snow, stairs) and artificially created conditions (with weights). It is important that resistance or weighted running is combined with running under normal conditions. At this stage, a problem arises related to the qualitative and quantitative measure of variability,” explained Andrey Sablin, head of the Department of Physical Education at MTUCI.

Scientists from MTUCI, together with colleagues, conducted an experiment involving young men aged 17-19 (28 individuals), who are engaged in sprint running at the athletics section of the Olympic reserve sports school.

During the first session, all athletes took control tests. Until the end of the general preparation phase, participants trained using the same methodology, performing identical volumes and intensities of load.

The main pedagogical experiment was conducted during the specially preparatory phase: the athletes in the control group trained using the conventional methodology, while the athletes in the experimental group trained using a newly proposed methodology with the application of special means in artificially created challenging conditions.

At the conclusion of the experiment, the athletes retook the norms. Prior to the study, both groups demonstrated nearly identical results, but after applying the new methodology, significant changes were observed in all indicators within the experimental group.

“The athletes from the experimental group improved their performance in all tests by 2.1 to 5.3 percent. The participants completed exercises such as jumps, triple jumps, and sprints over 20 and 60 meters. We confirmed the hypothesis that incorporating special resistance training in workouts for various segments will enhance the speed of development of quickness and speed-strength abilities of sprinters in short distances,” said Stanislav Chernychev, deputy head of the Department of Physical Education at MTUCI.

In the future, researchers plan to conduct additional studies that will reflect the impact of the proposed methodology on other physical qualities.