Special Strength Research On Chinese Figure Skating Male Athletes

According to technical characteristics of the figure skating and structural featuresof its movement, the special strength training of figure skating is important either onthe athletes’ physical training or in the course of the game. Strength quality plays apositive role in athletes’ physical development, and it is also the main basicprerequisite for athletes to grasp the difficult technical movement on ice skating.Figure skating needs completing jumps and spins and other complex and difficulttechnical action on the ice, so the athlete’s special strength i.e. stability strength andexplosive force should have been demanded highly. Good stability strength can notonly make the athletes more efficiently complete the difficult technical action, butalso ensure the quality of movement precision, and reduce the occurrence ofunexpected injuries. Good explosive force is the guarantee for figure skating athletesto complete the difficult technological movements, especially in pair skating project.In this project the male athlete’s special strength is more important, specializedtraining are needed either the upper body strength and the middle abdomen strength orthe lower extremity strength. While at present, the training research on trainingmethods is limited, especially in Chinese figure skating athletes’ special strength. Italso does not favor the figure skating sports development and raise the level oftechnology.This research focuses on the outstanding male athlete of the national team. Theathlete’s special strength would be mainly studied on two aspects that are stability andexplosive strength in order to grasp the characteristic of the figure skating event.Special strength status test would be taken on our elite male athletes, then the validtested data would be scientifically analyzed. Through watching video and consultingin recent figure skating competition sports scores at home and abroad, we find thatmang outstanding male athletes expose the special strength deficiency in the freegame project. And that leads to the weakness in the end of a complete set of game,which cannot reach the complete special strength quality requirements on completingDifficulty technical movement. By adopting advanced special strength trainingmethods and means overseas, and combining with the figure skating’s basicknowledge and technique principle of the science of sports training, sports anatomy,biomechanics, this research has been analyzed. According to the figure skatingathlete’s special strength ability, kinds of training methods and means on stabilitypower and explosive power have been adopted on the basis of figure skating landtraining. By doing that it improves the quality of the strength training, and establishesa set of scientific and reasonable figure skating training scheme for the Chineseathletes with references on raising their special strength ability.