Tough competition among Russian cross-country skiers and the constant growth of sports achievements in cross-country skiing require a continuous search for new training tools that can significantly improve the training of athletes. The purpose of the study was to test the effectiveness of using the simulation of the competitive mode and competition conditions at the stages of direct preparation for the main starts. The article presents a description of a pedagogical experiment aimed at determining the dynamics of changes in the general and special performance of cross-country skiers in the stage of direct preparation for competitions, which was organized on the basis of the State Budgetary Institution of Higher Education "School School No. 12" in Voronezh with the participation of 9 female skiers with a sports qualification candidate master of sports and master of sports. Based on the foregoing, it can be concluded that conducting individual training sessions in microcycles, the content of which is as close as possible to the competitive process, allows more purposefully solving the main tasks of this stage, both in terms of functional and technical-tactical improvement of female athletes.
TRAINING, CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING, COMPETITION MODELING
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