Junior skeet shooters’ physical conditioning

Abstract

Top sports results in shooting relate to the high athlete's capacity, which is based on his physical conditioning. The purpose of the work was to study the effect of simulation exercises on the physical conditioning of junior skeet shooters at the stage of preliminary basic training. The following methods were used: analysis and generalization of library resources, pedagogical observation, pedagogical testing, pedagogical experiment and methods of mathematical statistics. To assess the conditioning of athletes, a set of tests was used to determine stamina and coordination abilities. The study involved 22 athletes of the Olympic Reserve Junior Special School "Signal" and Complex Junior Sport School "Kolos" in Lviv (Ukraine), specializing in skeet shooting. The skeet shooters were divided into experimental and control groups. It is revealed that theoretically and practically shotgun shooting needs solving the requirements and tasks that relate to various aspects of shooters’ training, including physical ones. The positive dynamics of the shooters’ physical conditioning in the experimental group was found: the probable differences between the experimental and control groups were determined by the following indices: lifting the body from the lying position during 30 seconds (p = 0.030), the test "ten eights" (p <0.001) and throwing tennis ball at the target (p = 0.017). The necessity of applying pedagogical tests is grounded, which allow defining such physical qualities as: stamina and coordination abilities. The need to take into account the shooters’ physical conditioning for planning and correction of the training process is proved.