Since last year, Chinese cross-country skiing teams began to conduct intensive training at the wuokati center frequently. Now about 150 members from the national youth team, the national training team, and the cross-border cross-project team have trained here at the same time.
Xinhua News Agency, Katani, Finland, October 17th question: Chinese cross-country skiing Nordic “learning”
Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Yizhi
constant temperature minus 7 degrees Celsius, exhaling on the wall to form a large area of cranreuch. For two hours, the athletes followed the foreign teachers in the 1.2-kilometer indoor ski tunnel. At the end of the training, everyone gathered around Lin Ling.
“What is your heart rate?” Lin Ling asked.
“140!”
“150!” The athletes raised their wrist one after another to look at heart rate monitor watch.
“What is the lowest?”
130!”
“Our aerobic endurance is still not enough. We should pay more attention to controlling the rhythm of movements in the future.”
Lin Ling is a professor of physiology and is currently the leader of the Chinese coaching team of the national cross-country skiing training team. This time he brought his team to Finland and Norway to learn from the training mode of northern Europe and explore a scientific training system suitable for China.
In each Winter Olympics, the first and last events are cross-country skiing, which shows its position in winter sports. Due to historical reasons and objective conditions, there is a big gap between Chinese players and international top athletes in this project. Northern Europe is the most mature region for cross-country skiing. Different from the traditional training methods in China, it attaches great importance to using heart rate monitor watch to control the intensity of aerobic training.
Lin Ling told reporters that cross-country skiing is 1 kilometer short, 30 kilometers long and 50 kilometers long. It takes more than 2 hours to slide down a long distance, which can be called a snow marathon. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on aerobic endurance training and increase muscle glycogen content; At the same time, it is necessary to improve the gliding technology so that limb movements “make full use of aerobic metabolism, consume the least energy and generate the least metabolic waste”.
Song Yang, an athlete of the national youth team, said that after seven months of training at the Olympic Center of muokati in Finland, he felt “slippery lighter than before, without the feeling of tension before”. She thinks that the advantage of aerobic exercise is that she doesn’t feel tired every day, and at the same time, “technology has improved a lot”.
Correcting technical actions is a key point of this overseas training. In addition to the coach’s daily guidance, we also need to use the simulated ski tester.
The reporter saw that there was a belt device four or five times larger than the treadmill in the center of the laboratory. Athletes put on the pulley board, held skiing crutch, and simulated cross-country skiing on the belt. Cameras around, skiing crutch and sensors on the pulley board collect and transmit data, and form several sets of parameters through computer software. The coaching team can correct technical movements and adjust the training plan for each athlete in a targeted manner.
Waco Halonen, president of wuokati training center, said that these simulated skiing instruments were jointly developed by the training center with the School of Physical Education of weichley University and Kayani university of applied science and technology, it specially serves excellent athletes from all over the world. In the laboratory of Kayani University of Applied Science and Technology 30 kilometers away, the reporter saw researchers loading virtual reality technology into the next generation simulator. In the future, athletes may Ski indoors with helmets, but they will be as immersive as possible.
Wuokati training center has the world’s first ski tunnel, equipped with first-class sports teaching software and hardware developed by itself. Over the past 70 years, it has trained hundreds of winter sports coaches, attracting world-class skiers to come to train, for example, cross-country skiers from Japan, South Korea, Switzerland and Sweden are frequent visitors.
“If you see these top athletes in the ski tunnel, you can follow them; If you see them in the gym, you can exercise together. You can also have dinner and communicate with them. For many young athletes, together with these top athletes, they can clearly feel at which stage their level is, and they will feel more motivated, “Halonen said.
Since last year, Chinese cross-country ski teams began to conduct intensive training in wuokati center frequently. Now they have come from the national youth team, the national training team, about 150 players, including cross-border cross-project teams, trained here at the same time. The restaurant of the training center even specially opened an area to provide catering services for Chinese players and coaches.
Mico vertanin, the Finnish coach of China cross-country skiing team from 2015 to 2016, said that the level of cross-country skiing in China has improved rapidly in recent years, this is an example of winning five medals at the Asian Winter Games held in Sapporo, Japan last year.
He believes that there are three factors for cross-country skiers to achieve good results: one is physical fitness, the other is technology, and the third is snow gear. “Chinese athletes are similar to the world’s top players in terms of physical fitness, but there is still much room for improvement in technology and snow gear maintenance.” He believes that China and northern Europe cooperate in depth to provide scientific training for athletes and hope to make a breakthrough in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.