By sending your child to a sports school, you willy-nilly agree that he will periodically go to sports camps. Let me tell you in detail what it is.
The first question that arises is quite natural - why, in fact, are these fees needed? Is the child not getting enough exercise at home, exercising five or six times a week? However, any athlete will tell you that you need to train much more before the start of the playing season than during the competition in order to better prepare for all kinds of games and tournaments. That is why coaches regularly take their wards to training camps in order to closely monitor their preparation. Also at the training camp, the discipline of the young athlete increases - he learns to keep himself and his place of residence clean, communicate with people and follow the sports regimen. Strictly speaking, a sports camp is similar to a military camp, only, of course, the conditions are much milder.
Consider the following question of interest to us - when are children taken to sports camps? Don't worry, you won't have to part with your child too often. Most often, fees are three times a year - once in winter and twice in summer. Winter camp lasts about a week, most often it happens in early to mid-January. As for summer camps, a rare coach allows himself to spend less than three weeks on them. The first summer camps take place around the beginning of June, and during them, special emphasis is placed on the general physical condition, so that the athlete acquires the necessary physical form. In August, the second summer camp, and then the coaches no longer seek to pump up their wards, but to prepare them as much as possible for the playing season from the technical and tactical side.
How are sports camps going? I think they all have the same layout. In the morning - be sure to exercise, then breakfast and after a while training. Arriving from it, the athletes rest and go to lunch. After lunch - a quiet hour, without which it is difficult to imagine the fees. Then again training, rest and dinner. Sometimes there is still a third training session, but this already depends on the degree of fanaticism of the coach.
It is almost impossible to answer the question about the place of the gathering. It all depends on the financial capabilities of the parents or the sports school and the desire of the coach. Someone prefers to take athletes to training camps in the Moscow region or other cities close to Moscow, while someone considers it necessary to drive their wards on the sand, so they arrange training camps in Cyprus or Bulgaria. In general, when you need to find out where the training camp will be held, ask your child's coach about it.
What is the price?
In our difficult time, of course, everyone is worried about money. And in your head, too, the question is probably spinning: “But will these fees cost me a pretty penny?”. Here you can relax a little, because sometimes a sports school can pay part of the amount. You still have to pay extra, but I think you can afford such money. And if you're lucky, the sports school will pay for everything. But this already, of course, depends on the sport you choose and the sports school itself.
And, most importantly, sports camps will teach your child to live in a team, train hard and achieve their goals. Feel free to send your child to a sports camp. It will return healthy, strong and cheerful.
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Every parent wants their child to be healthy, confident and beautiful. Therefore, now more and more popularity is returning to all kinds of sports schools and sections, where children are engaged in a variety of sports - from martial arts before swimming. And if the sports club is more or less serious about the education of children, then it will undoubtedly take them to sports camps.
What is it and why is it needed - we will tell you in more detail.
Primarily sports camp are necessary so that the child can fully devote himself to sports.
It would seem that he does it anyway, especially if he visits the professional section five or six times a week. However, it should be borne in mind that the time of such classes is very limited, because the child still needs to do school lessons, relax, and it is necessary to get to the gym and back. At the same time, before the competition, training should be very intense, if, of course, children and coaches are aimed at results in the form of gold medals and new levels of skill. To achieve this, fees are needed, where young athletes can practice without distractions in specially equipped areas. Here they also learn discipline, the ability to maintain a routine and take care of themselves.
It is worth noting that children are taken not only to training camps, but also to health camps, especially when it comes to summer holidays. They are aimed at making the child as healthy as possible, helping him recover from school year, and at the same time maintain excellent physical shape and readiness for competitions.
By the way, qualifications for young athletes are often held during such training camps. For example, representatives of martial arts may return with new belts.
If we talk about the place of their holding, then here you can answer - the whole world. It all depends on the financial capabilities of the school and parents and the availability in the country of the necessary sports complexes. For example, soccer sports camp can be carried out almost anywhere, even in the Moscow region, even in Bulgaria, even in Turkey. But skiers will prefer either the snow-covered regions of Russia or countries such as Finland and Montenegro.
Sports camps for children are organized two or three times a year - once in winter and once or twice in summer. As a rule, at the time when they have holidays at school. An exception may be perhaps the preparation for some serious championship.
Camps are a must for every athlete, young and old. It is here that children take their first confident steps in the world. big sport and they lay the foundations for them to be champions in the future.
Evgeny Gavrilov, co-founder of the Running Lab, explains why sports camps are needed, how and where to hold them.
Why do we need sports fees and what is it?
To achieve results in running, you need to train a lot correctly, improve your technique, endurance and not get injured. It is almost impossible for an ordinary working person to work, do two workouts a day, and still have time to recover.
Sports camps are from several days to several weeks of training, when nothing distracts you from sports and rest between workouts.
When is the right time to go to the sports camp?
It doesn't matter if you are a beginner or an advanced athlete, camps will help you in any case.
A beginner can focus on technique or endurance. One to two weeks of training under the close supervision of a trainer will help you achieve what would normally take one to two months.
More experienced athletes go to training camps to lay the base (to do a lot of long workouts in slow pace), develop some physiological parameter, prepare for specific competitions or get a set of workouts, for example, mountain training, which is impossible to do in urban conditions, and even just relax.
The time for fees is selected depending on the goal. Marathon runners lay the base in winter - this is the basis for subsequent high-speed and technical training. Therefore, such fees are held from December to February. Training for technique requires low loads, so it is very good to work on it during the recovery period after the summer season - in October, November. In March-April, training camps are held to lead up to the competitive season.
And if you have a start at which you plan to show an excellent result, then the start itself should follow a series of camps. First, preparatory camps, which help to get in good shape by the start date. Following are those that help to optimally recover and acclimatize for the very start. This is a complex process that is very individual and depends on a lot of information. Even the Olympic teams do not always get into the peak of form at the Olympics.
Where to go to sports camps?
First of all, training camps are held where nothing - neither cooking, nor work, nor friends and family (this is more difficult) - interfere with training and sleep. If training takes place indoors, and you can “hide” from unnecessary communication, you can stay at home. However, it is psychologically easier to tune in to training by changing the environment. And the team with which you go to the training camp can teach you something new.
Runners ride in summer. There are two main favorite places for Russian national teams: Kislovodsk and Issyk-Kul. The reason is simple: climate and mountains.
People go to Kislovodsk more for the climate, because the height of 700 meters above sea level in the methodology sports training mountains are not considered. And in terms of performance development, it's better to live on the 1200m and train on the 700m than the other way around because you stay up longer. And the dry climate of Kislovodsk makes even a temperature of -7 quite comfortable for running.
Issyk-Kul is much higher, but this means not only an increase in hemoglobin in the blood (carries oxygen into cells and takes carbon dioxide out of them), but also carries a much greater likelihood of overtraining and losing the competitive season.
Experienced athletes and their coaches know what they are doing, so training at altitude adds a lot to their endurance. For example, if there is a heat at a responsible start, the training camp is held not in the mountains, but in a hot climate. If it's wet, the mountains should be wet too. If the climate and weather during the start is normal, you still need to estimate the water consumption at the competition and maybe reduce the fees so that the hemoglobin level does not rise too much. After the training camp, you can do a number of training jobs to delay the effect of the training camp.
How long should sports camps be?
Short fees are accepted in Europe. Most amateurs are working people, they cannot leave for a long time and cannot do complex double or triple workouts within the working week (this is when two or three hard workouts go in a row and each next one is performed at the level of underrecovery from the previous one). Then they add two extra days to the usual weekend and do a series of workouts, and the recovery falls on the work week.
In Russia, longer fees have been adopted. They consist of several load blocks with recovery in between.
But the length of fees is determined not only by your free time. It is determined by the capabilities of your body: how many workouts the body is able to accumulate fatigue without breakdowns into illness, overtraining or injury. That is why even elite athletes try not to make camps longer than 3 weeks. If longer gatherings are needed, they are doubled with a week or two rest between them.
If you haven’t been to training camps before, it’s better to start with one week so as not to overtrain.
Also, the length of the fees depends on how long the effect of the fees should last.
How long does the effect of sports training last?
There is a simple formula that will suit any amateur: if you make camps lasting one week, then you will recover for a week, and for another week you will run on the effect of the camp. Of course, this formula is influenced by individual characteristics, the intensity of the training camp, the need for acclimatization, recovery after the training camp, but in general it is working.
What kind of training to do at sports camps?
The easiest way to tie training at the training camp to a standard working week, dividing it into two parts. Then you can form collections of any duration from standard cycles of three or four days.
Standard four-day cycle:
1 day - interval training
Day 2 - tempo workout
Day 3 - long workout
Day 4 - rest day
Standard three day cycle:
Day 1 - Interval training or tempo training
day 2 long workout
Day 3 - rest day
The content and duration of training on each day not only can, but should vary. You can run intervals of 200 meters, or you can run 5000 meters. Tempo training can be either at a steady pace or at a jerky pace, with or without climbing. long workout it can be a two-hour cross and a six-hour cross hike. The optimal load is determined by the coach depending on the condition and preparation of the athlete.
What effect can be expected from the fees?
Camps are training proper recovery between them and good sleep - something that an athlete so often lacks in order to show a good result in competitions. if you have good coach or you can create and edit training plan, expect the same effect from the training camp as from a month or two of training in the usual mode.
Announcement of the Camp with the Running Lab
We offer:
Training 1-2 times a day, with a professional trainer.
Sample plan for the day:
10:00 - First training
12:00-17:00 - Lunch, rest
17:00 - Second training
Individual plan depending on weather conditions, level of training, goals and objectives of each
Cross hikes in the picturesque places of Kislovodsk (Beshtau, Medovye waterfalls, Small and Big saddle, etc.)
Price training process:
1 week - 10 000 rub.
2 weeks - 15,000 rubles.
For participants running club Runlab special terms.
Meals, accommodation and tickets are not included in the price.
Gathering with the Running Lab is a great opportunity to prepare for the Moscow, Berlin, Chicago, New York marathons, Autumn Thunder, Crimea X-run, Grom Trail run and other autumn competitions.
Why do our children need sports?
Sports fees, why is it needed?
General questions of the training process.
1. Why does a child need to go to sports camps (to a sports camp)?
We will omit the answer to the first question, because if your child is already attending our sports school or you are going to bring him to us all the advantages of playing sports, especially on outdoors, the more skiing you do not need to explain.
On the eve of summer, we consider it necessary to discuss, first of all, the issue of summer camps, as well as other issues.
Some parents believe that their child should stay exclusively in the country all summer, or they think that sports camps and camps are only for the most experienced athletes, members of the national team, and their children are still too early ... We will try to explain why you still need to go. First of all, this is a great opportunity to train well and intensively, without wasting energy on city traffic jams and without being distracted by other activities (school, kindergarten, circles), but also to relax at the seaside with friends and / or parents, spending time with maximum benefit.
1. Summer is the time to maintain, improve and restore fitness.
Every year, most of our pupils in March-April achieve their best results: the best development indicators for the year physical qualities, the best sports results (prizing places in competitions assigned sports ranks). For obvious reasons, most sports schools there are no regular training sessions in the summer. Because of this, over the summer, the sports form of almost all athletes is significantly reduced. At the same time, in September, the Championships of the region and the city are held among athletes aged 7-15, and ski competitions are just around the corner. Summer training and sports camps at our school are built on the basis of several training microcycles, the task of the first of which is just to restore physical form athletes ( skiing, like any other sport, has its own specific effect on the body and muscle groups, in the summer we try to harmonize the sports form). The absence of athletes from summer training sessions and non-participation in sports camps significantly reduces the success of their performance in important autumn competitions, and also significantly reduces the effectiveness of training sessions in September-October, since instead of learning new material, one has to repeat what has been covered and restore physical and sports skills forgotten during summer.
2. Significant improvement in fitness.
The second and third training microcycles are aimed at further improvement of sports form and can significantly improve the level of development of physical qualities in athletes. Improved performance quality technical elements Special ski training in summer, General physical training. This can be achieved by conducting a large number of training sessions at the training camp (both in winter and summer), for example, 35 training hours at the training camp (7-9 training days) correspond to 2-3 months of training with average attendance, as well as the effectiveness of these classes (athletes are not loaded with anything else, except for rest).
3. The development of physical qualities in athletes.
At the Luch Ski School, we pay great attention to the simultaneous development of the physical qualities of athletes at all stages of long-term year-round training (endurance, strength, agility, coordination, balance, etc.) and the predominant development of individual qualities in age periods, the most favorable for this (see the Program of the General Staff "Luch"). Regardless of the level sports achievements during the season, as a result of attending training sessions in the summer, we guarantee a noticeable improvement in physical fitness. Physical development ski school is one of our main goals (and, it seems to us, the goal of most parents who enroll their children in a ski school is year-round training). But some physical qualities (such as coordination or flexibility) can only be significantly improved through regular (continuous) training sessions. Training at a sports camp most effectively contributes to a significant improvement in the development of physical qualities in athletes, and also lays the foundation for further training.
4. Tempering the character of athletes, fortitude and willpower.
All the positive effects of training in the conditions of a sports camp are manifested to a greater extent due to their intensity. At the same time, when conducting training sessions at the training camp, we, as well as in regular classes, are guided by the principle “From simple to complex”.
- Sport helps to study better.A healthy child is one that develops harmoniously. Practice shows that children in whose schedule exercise stress is on a par with mental, have better academic performance than their peers who do not go in for sports. And this is logical - during sports, the brain is saturated with oxygen, which helps the baby to be more focused and assiduous, improves the quality of sleep and the ability to remember.
- Sport builds character.Children involved in sports sections, learn not to leave things halfway, but to bring them to the end; Don't give up, but overcome difficulties. All sports activities develop qualities such as patience, discipline, and the ability to concentrate. Through sports, children develop the desire to be better and better.
- Sport is good for health.This point does not need to be explained, but we repeat: sport strengthens the health of your child. Sports activities form muscle corset, strengthens respiratory system and immunity.
It is important that the child enjoys playing sports, because the most important thing is the happy childhood of your child. Therefore, we are trying to make the training process interesting, varied and exciting. Don't forget to relax after class as well. After each workout, you need a full recovery.
5. Ability to move to a stronger group.
Starting this year, we are trying to more clearly differentiate children by skills and abilities. In our understanding, children of 1 year of study should train separately from others (to minimize stress and improve the quality of perception of new information).
The transfer of athletes from one group to another (stronger) is considered correct and possible from the 2nd year of study (but there are also exceptional cases, we only welcome them). Such translations help to increase the effectiveness of training sessions in groups, because the more equal in level and age the group is, the better. However, we want to draw your attention to the fact that the decision to transfer an athlete is made by the coaching staff, based on the principle of objectivity (the capabilities and successes of your children, as well as the attitude to classes and the desire, first of all, of the child and the parent, are more visible to the coaches).
Every year, at the end of October, we plan to update the composition of the groups, transferring some athletes to stronger groups. Athletes who have proven themselves well at training sessions in the summer according to the main schedule and who have gone to sports camps (namely, those who have proven themselves, and not just everyone who went to them) have the greatest chances to move into a stronger group. This, in our opinion, is logical, given that it is not possible to judge the sports form of those who have not trained since May.
6. Recreation at sea for athletes and their relatives.
Apart from ideal conditions for sports camps, which we try to offer for all our athletes, their relatives also have the opportunity to have a good rest at the sea in comfortable conditions. Mainly for summer holidays we offer comfortable family accommodation - proven hotels, perhaps of a higher category than necessary for our sports goals (and therefore more expensive), good food, sports infrastructure, safe area for children, clear sea and beach. However, we want to draw your attention to the fact that we are not a travel company, the priorities for us are to choose an object for the collection, and not for a family vacation.
7. Education of independence and the ability to coexist in society.
Most children are now "attached" to their parents and grandparents. They don't rest anywhere without relatives. Sports fees - unique opportunity instill independence in the child. Sending some children to vacation camps on tours is a certain risk, since you do not know who your child is traveling with (what guys will surround him), and who the leader of the group is. The only way these days to send a child alone on vacation that reduces these risks is to send him accompanied by his coach. In this case, you know both the coach and other children with whom your child will be around for 14-21 days. Of course, with all the "independence", we try to help children as much as possible in all domestic matters.
2. Why this place (hotel) and not another?
1. The choice of a meeting place is made up of several factors:
- Price (we take into account the financial capabilities of all parents of the school).
- The necessary base for training, taking into account the tasks of the collection.
- Security as in physical plane, and in terms of health (we simply do not consider some places for sports camps, despite generally acceptable conditions for training sessions, we focus on our experience or feedback from our colleagues and tourism specialists)
- Possibility of delivery or rental of sports equipment.
3. The main misconceptions of some parents
1. Why do skiers need fees in summer? Why are there so many fees in summer?
In June-July, the training process is aimed at restoring the body's resources after winter season and start preparing for active training period(therefore, it is usually the sea), holding a sports camp at the end of July or in August is necessary for acquiring an optimal sports form for the beginning of the competitive season. Skipping especially the August period of training, we will not see the level of training that we expected.
2. I am afraid to let my child go to a sports camp (he will burn himself in the sun, or hurt himself, or drown in the sea, etc.)
During the sports camp, we do not limit ourselves solely to conducting training sessions. Children enter and exit the sea (or pool) at the command of the coaches; while swimming, the children are always under the supervision of the coach. Also, our coaches and parents of other children provide maximum assistance to not very independent children: they wake up in the morning for training sessions, help to fold / wash clothes, make sure that children eat well and properly, help with personal hygiene, etc.
Director of the General Staff "Luch" Eliseeva N.M.
and school coaching staff.