| （Department of Physical Education，Guangzhou Sport University，Guangzhou 510500，China) Abstract: Based on the systematic and even-specific nature of competitive sports training, the author carried out a sys-tematic analysis on the theory of core strength training, and revealed the following findings: defining the physiological anatomy area and strength training as the “core” tends to lead people to local one-sided misunderstandings, neglecting the systematic, event-specific and dynamic nature of competitive sports training as well as the characteristics of its sub-ability integration and coordinated development; core strength training is not the core of sports training, in com-petitive sports training, the core should be event-specific core abilities which decide competitive sports performance, while the core area should be the entire system area that participates in forming the event-specific “kinematic chain” in action, it changes with the progress of specific events, movement structures, movement stages and movement modes, having such characteristics as event-specific, real time, dynamic and target guiding; core strength training belongs to the scope of basic or auxiliary training, it just enriches never-muscle training methods and means, its applicable range, training stage and training proportion should be gradually reduced orderly at the stages of formation, enhancement, op-timum and maintenance of event-specific competitive abilities; whether or how much it can enhance event-specific competitive sports abilities still needs to be proved by empirical study.
Key words: competition and training；competitive sports；core strength；core area；event-specific core ability |
