Research on Current Situation and Countermeasures of Physical Training for Male Athletes in Dragon Boat Race

Abstract

Since the reform and opening up policy, the dragon boat project has been developing rapidly, and now it's widely spreading all over the world. Owing to the Olympic spirit, the dragon boat race has gradually transformed itself from a folk sport to a competitive sport. Athletes are required to have a good build and stamina which can provoke their spirit of competition in a dragon boat race, and finally have a good success in the race. After 30 years of development, in coaches, athletes and scientific research personnel's efforts, the standard of Chinese Dragon Boat Sport has been greatly improved. Compared with other professional competitive sports, the Chinese Dragon Boat Sport still has a long way to go. (1) Through a questionnaire survey and expert interviews which indicated some reasons on following several aspects: l) the influence of the traditional dragon boat sport and the ignorance of the Dragon Boat Festival. 2) the lack of its own unique scientific training system in physical training which is not a complete system of training mode. 3) the modern scientific methods in the training can not make good use of scientific equipment. 4) athletes' ignorance of cultural knowledge; the limitation of physical training ability; the training effect is not ideal that we excepted. 5) coaches are inexperienced, according to the technical characteristics of dragon boat movement, special physical fitness of athletes don't have special physical training.