Dr. Hab., Associate Professor I.E. Konovalov¹
G.B. Suleimanov¹
PhD, Professor Y.V. Boltikov¹
PhD, Professor O.B. Solomakhin¹
S.A. Eliseev^2
1Volga Region State Academy of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism, Kazan
²Kurgan Border Institute of the FSB of Russia, Kurgan

Keywords: youth belt wrestling, training system, psychological fitness.

Background. The growing competitiveness of the modern global sports and regular changes in the rules of competitions urge the belt wrestling sport communities persistently update the existing training systems for success and look for new physical, technical, tactical, psychological and integrated training approaches, methods and tools, including those customizable to somatic types, temperaments and, hence the individual energy supply mechanisms [1-4]. As things now stand in the belt wrestling sport, it is relatively well studied, analyzed and managed, and this is the reason why the sport leaders are virtually evenly matched in the physical, technical and tactical fitness aspects. Therefore, the sport communities give a growing priority to the psychological fitness as one of the decisive competitive success factors [2, 5].

Objective of the study was to rate benefits of a new psychological fitness building model to complement standard training systems applied in the youth belt wrestling sport.

Results and discussion. The new psychological fitness building model testing experiment was run to rate the following psychological fitness elements: success motivation; risk tolerance; failure avoidance motivation, mental fitness, state and trait anxiety. The study included two stages: pre-experimental stage 1 and experimental stage 2. Given in Table hereunder are the psychological fitness test rates of the sample.

Table 1. Psychological fitness test data of the belt wrestling sample, points, X±δ

The pre-experimental averaged test data were as follows for the RG: success motivation 13.55±2.06 points; risk tolerance 19.85±7.21 points; failure avoidance motivation - 17.15±2.56 points; mental fitness - 845.80±259.01 points; trait anxiety - 56.20±1.85 points; and state anxiety - 59.90±1.94 points. And for the EG the test data were the following:  success motivation 13.20±1.88 points; risk tolerance 20.20±6.90 points; failure avoidance motivation 17.10±1.92 points; mental fitness 831.60±199.78 points; trait anxiety 56.00±2.10 points; and state anxiety 40±2.26 points. These data may be interpreted as indicative of meaningless differences in the EG and RG psychological fitness (p>0.05) prior to the new psychological fitness building model testing experiment.

After the prior tests, we tested on the EG the experimental ST model with a special priority to the psychological fitness building elements and with effective combinations of belt wrestling training methods to fully mobilize the individual functional resource. The model analyzes the strengths and weaknesses in the bioenergetic profiles and, hence, temperaments, energy supply mechanisms for muscular activity, tolerance to competitive mental and physical pressures and adaptabilities for the psychological fitness building on an individualized basis.

The post-experimental (stage 2) tests of the sample yielded the following data. The RG was tested with success motivation of 13.90±2.00 points; risk tolerance 18.50±7.00 points; failure avoidance motivation 15.80±2.71 points; mental fitness 770.20±232.26 points; trait anxiety 52.10±2.07 points and state anxiety 56.60±2.37 points. And the EG was tested with success motivation of 17.05±2.11 points; risk tolerance 11.10±4.83 points; failure avoidance motivation 13.00±1.69 points; mental fitness 553.60±154.50 points; trait anxiety 46.35±2.92 points and state anxiety 51.30±2.68 points.

Comparative analysis of the pre- versus post-experimental test data showed benefits of the EG training versus the RG as the EG test rates were higher by the following points: success motivation - 3.15 points; risk tolerance - 7.40 points; failure avoidance motivation - 2.80 points; mental fitness - 216.60 points; trait anxiety 5.75 points and state anxiety by 5.30 points. The mathematical statistics analysis showed the intergroup differences being significant for every test scale (p <0.05).

Conclusion. The study found the following progress in both groups, with the EG tested with the following growth on the test scales: success motivation - 29.17%; risk tolerance - 45.05%; failure avoidance motivation - 23.98%; mental fitness - 33.43%; trait anxiety - 17.23%; and state anxiety 15.07%, with the progress rated statistically significant (p <0.05). The RG made progress of 2.58%; 6.80%; 7.87%; 8.94%; 7.30% and 5.51% on the same scales, respectively; with the progress rated statistically insignificant (p> 0.05). It should be emphasized that the new psychological fitness building model was tested beneficial as verified by the EG making improvements on the state anxiety, trait anxiety, risk tolerance and failure avoidance motivation test scales to the optimal levels; plus achieved stable integrated mental fitness and success motivation ranges. These test data give us the grounds to recommend the belt wrestling training systems being designed and managed with due consideration for the individual strengths and weaknesses detected by the bioenergetic profiles and, hence types of temperament.

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Corresponding author: igko2006@mail.ru

Abstract

Objective of the study was to rate benefits of a new psychological fitness building model to complement standard training systems applied in the youth belt wrestling sport.

Methods and structure of the study. The new psychological fitness building model testing experiment was run at "PGAFKST", with the 18-21 year-old belt wrestling athletes (n=40) sampled for the study and split up into Experimental and Reference Groups (EG, RG) of 20 wrestlers. The EG trainings were complemented by the new psychological fitness building model of our own design based on the individual typological features of the energy supply for muscular activity. And the RG was trained as required by the traditional belt wrestling training system. The study included two stages.

Results and conclusion. The study found the following progress in the both groups, with the EG tested with the following growths on the test scales: success motivation - 29.17%; risk tolerance - 45.05%; failure avoidance motivation - 23.98%; mental fitness - 33.43%; trait anxiety - 17.23%; and state anxiety 15.07%, with the progress rated statistically significant (p <0.05). The RG made progress of 2.58%; 6.80%; 7.87%; 8.94%; 7.30% and 5.51% on the same scales, respectively; with the progresses rated statistically insignificant (p> 0.05). It should be emphasized that the new psychological fitness building model was tested beneficial as verified by the EG making improvements on the state anxiety, trait anxiety, risk tolerance and failure avoidance motivation test scales to the optimal levels; plus achieved stable integrated mental fitness and success motivation ranges. These test data give us the grounds to recommend the belt wrestling training systems being designed and managed with due consideration for the individual strengths and weaknesses detected by the bioenergetic profiles and, hence types of temperament.