Cardiovascular system functionality tests to individualize pre-season training process in elite weightlifting sport

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Associate Professor, PhD R.V. Khomenko1
E.V. Antropova1
G.V. Tamozhnikova1
R.Kh. Faizrakhmanova1
1South Ural State University (National Research University), Chelyabinsk

One of the key problems in ensuring high competitive performance in weightlifting is individualization of pre-season training, based, among other things, on the current fitness level and functional state of an athlete .Objective of the present study was to offer cardiovascular system functionality tests to effectively individualize the pre-season training process in the modern elite weightlifting sport. Sampled for the study were Candidate Masters of Sports and Masters of Sport in the weightlifting sport split up into Reference (n=15) and Experimental (n=15) Groups; with the training system of the Experimental group individualized versus the cardiovascular system functionality test indices. Every option of the pre-season training system was strictly individualized by the process intensity, body conditioning workloads and rehabilitation tools in compliance with the initial/ current/ expected physical fitness and mastery characteristics. The cardiovascular system functionality tests included heart rate and stroke volume rating tests. The pre-season training process individualization model driven by the cardiovascular system functionality tests was found beneficial for the elite weightlifters as verified by the progress of the Experimental Group in the cardiovascular system functionality, lower tension on the cardiac function regulation mechanisms in the sport-specific movement sequences and the improved adaptive capability indices.

Keywords: individualization, pre-season training, cardiovascular system, elite weightlifters.

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