Medical and biological fundamentals of young athletes’ training

Abstract

Background and Study Aim. The social and pedagogical effectiveness of the training process, ensuring the normal physical development of young athletes, and the formation of their somatic and psychological health directly depends on the extent to which the anatomical and physiological features of the child's body are taken into account, which justify the medical and biological bases of the system of training young athletes. The article presents a review of scientific literature on the issues of medico-biological substantiation of young athletes’ preparation.

Material and Methods Analysis and generalization of data of scientific-methodical literature and information sources of the Internet; study of documentary materials; method of copying.

Results. A brief characteristic of the complex of interrelated tasks – health improvement, education, and physical perfection of the younger generation in their sports training is given. Determination of biological age conformity to the chronological age is one of the actual problems in the practice of sports medicine and preparation of young athletes, especially of puberty age. After the first Summer Youth Olympic Games held in Singapore in 2010, coaches and experts in sports medicine concluded that the formation of teenage competition teams should be based on the indices of their physical development and sexual maturation at the same chronological age.

Conclusion. A mismatch between physical loads and the functional capacities of the body of a child, adolescent are the main causes of the development of chronic physical overexertion of body system functions and sports injuries, in particular. Speaking about women's sports, it should be remembered that all the problems in the initial stage of athletic training, for girls and girls who have not yet reached not only social, but also physical maturity.