(1.School of Physical Education,Hunan City University,Yiyang 413000,China;2.Athletics Management Center,General Administration of Sport of China,Beijing 100061,China) Abstract: In order to build a race walking training load control theory and enable it to guide sports training practice, the authors probed into the connation, running mechanism and operating characteristics of race waking training load control process by basing their research subject on high performance race walkers in China and their load control in training and competition periods, and put forward the following opinions: a complete training load control process includes two basic processes, namely, mathematical control and load effect control, which are mutually supplementary, and inseparable; the running mechanism changes from “other-organization” to “self-organization”, in which other-organization is necessary but not sufficient, while self-organization is sufficient but not fully necessary; high performance race walker training load con-trol process gradually presents the following characteristics: endurance training tends to be technology independent; load control tends to be event specific; plateau training tends to become a normal procedure; load control tends to be carried out on a plain; training and recovery are integrated; effect control is individualized etc. Key words: competition and training;race walker;training load;control process |