On the 11th, the State Sports General Administration issued a notice on its website on soliciting opinions from the General Administration of Sports General Administration on 9 competition rules (draft for comments) including swimming for the 14th National Games.
Among them, the competition rules of many events include physical fitness tests, which are related to whether the athletes can enter the finals. This has once again attracted the attention of many netizens.
One day after the document was issued, the topic was ranked high on the Weibo hot search list
Take swimming as an example. In the physical fitness test, the test items include 3000-meter run, 30-meter sprint, vertical jump, pull-ups, and trunk core strength.
Athletes with a total score of 30 points or more in 5 physical fitness items can finally participate in the swimming finals of the 14th National Games.
Scoring criteria for physical examination of swimming events.
In other words, if athletes swim in the preliminaries to break the Asian record, but the physical test results are not up to standard, they will still miss the National Games finals.
Data map: In the women's 1500m freestyle final of the 18th Asian Games, Chinese player Wang Jian Jiahe won the championship with a time of 15.53.68.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
Such a thing is not impossible.
In the 2020 National Swimming Championships, five athletes, including Fu Yuanhui, Wang Jian Jiahe, and Yu Hexin, who ranked first in the preliminary contest, all missed the final due to their low physical fitness test scores.
It is worth mentioning that Wang Jian Jiahe also broke the women's 1500m Asian record with a time of 15 minutes 45.59 in the competition.
This direct link between physical fitness test scores and competition selection has aroused heated discussions among netizens.
Some netizens said: "Physical fitness can be used as a part of performance, but it is really too absolute as the only thing that determines life and death. After all, physical fitness is to assist professional, and professional still depends on performance. Physical fitness can affect performance, but physical fitness cannot determine performance." "There are specializations in the technical industry, and athletes who specialize in special training have different muscles..."
Some netizens also hold a positive attitude, saying that exercise and physical fitness are inseparable, and professional things are still left to professional people.
So, why do physical fitness tests need to be introduced in major competitions, and what do professionals think?
At the end of February last year, the State Sports General Administration issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening Basic Physical Training and Complementing Physical Ability".
It clearly stated that since the Tokyo Olympics preparation cycle, the General Administration of Sports has achieved initial results in strengthening basic physical training. "However, due to the long-term'debt', the problems of weak basic physical fitness and weak specific physical fitness have restricted our decisive battle. Tokyo, the decisive field of ability improvement and strength development. We must continue to pay close attention to physical training."
As the Tokyo Olympics was postponed for one year, the basic physical intensive training of national teams covering almost all events began.
Data map: Badminton players conduct physical fitness tests. Image source: China Badminton Association
In this regard, Chen Xiaoping, a researcher from the Institute of Physical Education of the State General Administration of Sports who has long been committed to the physical training of sports teams, once said in an interview with the media that physical fitness is an important factor in determining athletes' special performance.
"For competitive sports training, physical fitness is divided into basic physical fitness and specific physical fitness. For a long time, there has been a phenomenon in my country's training industry that emphasizes specific physical fitness and neglects basic physical fitness. To change this problem, it is important to change consciousness and follow science." Chen Xiaoping Say.
According to reports, in the process of preparing for the Tokyo Olympic cycle, various national teams found in their physical fitness data analysis that basic physical fitness is indeed the shortcoming of Chinese athletes.
After the General Administration issued relevant regulations to strengthen basic physical training, many athletes have also felt the positive changes brought about by the large-scale physical training.
Xu Jiayu, who won two gold medals in the National Swimming Championships last year, once said: "The improvement in physical fitness for a period of time has supported me to perform better in the sprint stage of swimming competitions. I practiced my special concentration and willpower. Putting it also on physical training, it is important to make it clear that physical training is as important as special training."
National badminton star Chen Yufei also believes: "Physical fitness is very important for badminton. Our women's singles has good physical fitness on the court, so we can have speed and take the initiative, so that we can win."
Data map: Badminton team members perform physical fitness test. Photo courtesy of China Badminton Association
Just as Li Jianming, deputy director of the State Sports General Administration, said before, “measures should be more scientific, more targeted, and closer to the reality of each project.”
The reinforcement of basic physical fitness requires a more scientific setting of training content and assessment mechanism according to local conditions, project conditions, and individual conditions.
Therefore, this time, the physical fitness test prescribed different "prescriptions" according to different items.
For example, the physical fitness test items for 7-a-side rugby are: Mustang running, 30-meter sprint, prone pull-up, vertical jump and squat.
Table Tennis Physical Fitness Test Standard
The physical fitness test of table tennis is divided into basic physical fitness and special physical fitness. Basic physical fitness includes: 30-meter sprint, abdominal muscle endurance and back muscle endurance; special physical fitness includes lateral sliding step, A-shaped moving footwork, double rocking rope skipping, and sitting rotation 5 items of throwing and standing long jump.
It is not difficult to see from the new competition rules that the physical fitness evaluation system is constantly improving, and methods to enhance basic physical fitness and specific physical fitness are explored in accordance with the project and individual characteristics.
The purpose is also to make athletes pay attention to strengthening basic physical training, and to lay a solid physical foundation for creating good results in the competition.
However, the final effect still needs the experience and proof of the event.