| （1.Department of Physical Education，South China Agricultural University，Guangzhou 510642，China；2.Section of Physical Education，Zhongshan Experimental High School，Zhongshan 528400，China) Abstract: The authors processed and analyzed various data of game participation of world excellent male shot-putters over the years, published by the Track and Field News magazine of the United States, and revealed the following findings: in the London Olympic Games cycle, the annual results of these excellent shot-putters showed a wavy change, and all their annual best results appeared in the middle and late periods of the season; all of them participated in games frequently in the big game year; annual interval days were 4~5 months or 8.0~8.5 months. The said findings indicated the followings: the annual training and competition periods of excellent shot-putters should be arranged specifically according to the “sports career age” they are at, mainly based on twin periods or multiple periods; before a big game, they rested 1~2 weeks, par-ticipated in 13.8 games averagely; after a big game, they had a game every 3~5 days, participated in 4.8 games averagely; their best results appeared in June, quite long before August, the game time of world games, which was probably caused by such reasons as the difference of screening mechanisms, participation in several games in a short period of time, the dif-ference of annual game participation goals etc.
Key words: competition and training；competition condition；characteristics of game participation；excellent male shot-putter；London Olympic Games |
