Text 1.2 science and practice of training

1. Read the following text. Express your opinion on training process.

Progress in athletics is due to the enormous increasing of the amount of training and the application of scientific knowledge. However, training is no science; in the training only empirically proven action patterns are realized. Science and practice are not competing with each other, they are complementary.

Sportive training is considering laws such as "shaping of sportive form" or within the training of the strength abilities or within the training for endurance. The guidelines are "the principles of the sportive training" which are based on practical and empirical aspects.

Science and training are basically different ("the science of coaching means theories on training"). Science is becoming the help of the coach and physical education teacher; training is the topic of this science. Training like sport is no science. Science deals with rationalization and an economization due to an evaluation of the efficiency of the used training methods. The analysis of the efficiency of training methods has contributed to the improvement of performance. Another topic of the science of coaching is the performance diagnosis.

2. Answer the question to the text.

1. Is progress in athletics due to the enormous increasing of the amount of training or the application of scientific knowledge? 2. Why is training no science? 3. Science and practice are not competing with each other, are they? 4. What laws does sportive training consider? 5. What are the principles of sportive training based on? 6. Are science and training different or similar? 7. What is becoming the help of the coach and physical education teacher? 8. Training is the topic of the science, isn’t it? 9. What does the science deal with? 9. What has contributed to the improvement of performance? 10. What is another topic of the science of coaching?

3. Match the words from both columns.

1	due to	A	оценка
2	efficiency	B	обретение спортивной формы
3	to contribute	C	эмпирически оправданные двигательные модели
4	improvement of performance	D	иметь дела с, заниматься
5	empirically proven action patterns	E	дополняющий друг друга
6	complementary	F	благодаря
7	to compete	G	вносить вклад
8	law	H	рекомендации
9	shaping of sportive form	I	заниматься рассмотрением
10	guidelines	J	повышение спортивного мастерства
11	to consider	L	закономерность
12	application of scientific knowledge	M	увеличение тренировочного объёма
13	evaluation	N	конкурировать, соперничать
14	science	O	тема, научное направление
15	to deal with	P	эффективность
16	increasing of the amount of training	R	наука
17	topic	S	применение научного знания

4. Talk on “Science and Practice of Training”. Discuss different scientific researches.