Khovantsev biography

Chick Khovantsev. After the scandal with the biathlon coach Vladislav Tulaev, who, having lost his mobile phone control, posted a frank conversation with a friend on the network, many journalists rushed to watch lists of specialists working with the team, and found another “suspicious type” there - Artem Istomin, the year of birth, without sports and serious experience.

It is indicated as a coach of the male team and, not surprisingly, with its appearance in the lists, a flurry of criticism in social networks, as well as in specialized bloggers, caused his appearance. To make clarity to the question “Who is Mister Istomin? How did you get into the team? I got on a common basis, just like all other coaches. In April, one of my friends, the biathletist, with the words: “You must participate there and tell them everything that you told me”, threw off the link to the SBR website, where the information about the competition for the positions of coaches in the national team hung.

But this whole story starts much earlier. After that, my anger, depression, anger again replaced me, and all this grew into a certain motivation to become a coach and not allow such specialists to athletes that they worked with my generation. I climbed into science and began to study human physiology normal, sports, age, biomechanics, biochemistry, and theory of sports training.

Initially, I set myself up that I would work with adults, because to work with children simply does not need to have so much knowledge. Then I began to help the coaches for free. He himself imposed, knowing that no one would take me to work, because there was no experience or diploma at that time. At his own expense, he went through summer training with the city team, and at the same time engaged in science.

He performed at competitions, scientific conferences, even had to read something for medical staff. And, of course, he talked about the results of his practical research to trainers. It was necessary to understand what imprints on the athlete’s body are superimposed in such geoclimatic conditions. I studied the system of external respiration, the influence of violations of the rules for conducting the training process on it.

We have a limit of air temperature, below which you can no longer conduct training and competitions. But this limit is often not observed in pursuit of the result. I explained and argued to the coaches on their own pupils, what consequences they can get if the rules do not be taken into account. They chose the University of Leshaft in St. Petersburg to go there a magistracy.

He acted without problems on a common basis. The head of the department, who was present at the exam. He began to study in the magistracy and continued to engage in science. I moved to deeper issues, worked at the center of sports testing, gained experience in functional tests and work with equipment. The management liked my interest, they began to attract me to conduct practical and lecture classes in physiology.

And in this mode, I lived until March, when we were sitting in a cafe with a friend, and I told her about my vision of the modern training of biathletes. In April, she, as I said above, gave me the idea to send an application for a competition in the SBR. Not even with the aim of getting a job, but at least to give them the material, having read which, they may be useful something useful.

I decided that really, if in the SBR they just read my calculations and somehow partially use it, I will be pleased. I didn’t even think about an invitation to work with the team. Part of the material was ready, it remained only to analyze and structure everything. Wrote, sent. Khovantsev: “On the instructions of the leadership, they worked out options for rejuvenation of the coaching staff in the new Olympic season, the task of finding an intelligent, formed, speaking one language, a promising, studying and executive young specialist was faced with me.

The task, honestly, is not easy. I had to choose a coach with whom I had to work and transfer experience. The circle of applicants was narrowed by the number of applications filed for the competition. I sit, look at the profiles, read, look and, to my surprise, stumble upon one profile that contains a deep analysis of the training process of Russian and foreign teams, verified, conscious, competently presented, despite the fact that I understand for myself, it is simply impossible to write off this information.

I called the Leshafta department, received only positive reviews, called Artem, invited for an interview, I was interested in looking at this summer guy in the dialogue. ” In the area of ​​May 20, when I conducted classes, Anatoly Khovantsev called me. The phone was at the department, I did not hear calls and only in the evening I saw eighteen missing from an unfamiliar number.

He called back and received an invitation to arrive in Moscow for an interview. I arrived and explained the whole concept of the preparation that I described in the application. And it so happened that the ideas that I approached with the scientific method coincided with those that Khovantsev came through many years of practice.Understanding that we speak the same language, he invited me to the national team, asking me if I am not afraid to work with the main composition of the male team.

I accepted it as a challenge. Then he began to advise some athletes to plan a training load, and after some time they began to pay me, and they determined the amounts themselves. The guys saw that I work a lot, I am engaged in analysis, planning, I could not sleep at night, and appreciated it. At the same time, they saw their progress and already learned to evaluate their condition.

I did not reach the level of national teams at that time. Where does it come from? The numbers of volume, intensity, finding in some areas of the pulse. But we stopped tracking the ratio of these numbers, the construction of training microcycles. And working through the volume, believing that the more, the better, they rested against overtraining, fatigue. To solve this issue, someone went to not the best actions.

Just because I have not seen another road. Even now, some coaches come to me questions about the proper construction of a training microcycle. They send their plans, and there some points raise many questions, I thought that we had long become more educated in this regard. Is there a lack of authority? You need to work. With most athletes, I was already familiar, communicated, and they, being aware of my level of knowledge, told the rest who I am and how I can help them.

At the athletes, the level of the national team is difficult to change some basic indicators of functional performance, they reached their maximum, and it practically does not move. The result has to be achieved by achieving a restructuring on the periphery. It is necessary to engage in the economy of technology, increase muscle potential. It is necessary to learn to include and relax individual muscle fibers and small muscles, synchronize their efforts, develop intermuscular coordination.

All this allows you to increase the power of work. When I came to the team, I studied the results of testing athletes and realized - we have very strong guys, the main thing is not to interfere with them. And this can be done by overloading the athletes, bringing them to overtraining, tiring the central nervous system. They could get out of this pit for a very long time.

We try to carefully lead them. All training and examinations are dropped on my computer, I look through, analyze all this, sometimes we send someone to separate deeper tests, we correct classes with the coaching staff, depending on the results. Now, in the first year, we try to spend as many tests as possible to get the maximum information and evaluate which tests should be left and which do not give a particularly accurate picture.

Here, in Ramzau, now ice, and there is the opportunity to lose muscle coordination on it, and even injure. Therefore, part of the preparation has already been adjusted. We make the best possible. Prior to that, we took the collection of 18 days in Sochi at an altitude of meters. But do not forget that this is the post -marshy season, and athletes still need to let them recover after the Olympic cycle.

Are there any prerequisites for them? At the same time, we observe positive dynamics in those indicators whose shift is achieved with more intense work. That is, at the lowest cost, we got a greater training effect. The next year, everything will be more noticeable, at the moment there is an adaptation of the methodology and athletes. So finding me, it is extremely difficult to track.

Coaching work, when you start from scratch, low -paid and loves enthusiasts. But now, looking at Khovantsev, I understand that I have to keep enthusiasm at least up to 69 years, it will help, as it seems to me, to remain an optimist and continue to do what I love in any situation. Photo: SBR.