ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL FITNESS OF HIGHLY SKILLED ROAD CYCLISTS OF THE SYRIAN NATIONAL TEAM

The article presents the results of testing the general and special physical fitness of 10 young men aged 19.3±0.6 years, who are members of the Syrian national road racing team at the beginning and end of the preparatory period. The dynamics of the studied indicators for the study period of 10 weeks of the training cycle was obtained: the average group indicators of speed increased by 4.9 %, the average group indicator of explosive strength (strength component) increased by 4.8 %, the average group indicator of explosive strength (speed component), the average group indicator of special endurance increased by 5.4 %, the indicator of general endurance increased by 6.2 %, and at the end of the pedagogical study, all athletes in all standards their results correspond to the standard above the norm and the norm, which indicated the effectiveness of the training methods used.