CLIMBING ARTIFICIAL MOUNTAINS AS A MEANS OF PROFESSIONAL AND APPLIED PHYSICAL TRAINING FOR TOURISM INSTRUCTORS

Abstract

The article deals with a relevant problem of improving the professionally applied physical training of tourism instructors. In the context of the rapid development of domestic extreme tourism in the Russian Federation, the requirements for the safety and level of special competencies of instructor-guides are increasing. The task of the study is to provide a theoretical justification and experimental verification of the effectiveness of a physical training program on artificial terrain (climbing wall) aimed at developing professionally significant qualities of instructors. The pedagogical experiment, organized on the basis of the Dokhsun sports complex (Yakutsk), involved 16 tourists aged 40–60 with more than 10 years of experience in mountain hiking, divided into control and experimental groups. The program developed by the author included three stages: basic physical, special and technical training, implemented on a climbing wall in combination with independent general physical training. The study used methods of questionnaires, pedagogical testing of physical (3000 m run, hanging on the bar, dynamometry, climbing a route and a traverse) and professional (working with equipment, climbing with a jumar, tying knots) fitness, as well as methods of mathematical statistics. The results of the control experiment recorded a statistically significant (p < 0.05) superiority of the experimental group in all indicators, especially in tests for strength endurance, coordination and speed of performing technical actions. The theoretical significance of the work lies in supplementing the theory and methodology of sports tourism with scientifically based data on the use of artificial terrain in the professional training of personnel. The practical significance lies in the possibility of introducing the developed program into the educational process of educational organizations engaged in the training of specialists in the field of tourism and sports.