The purpose of this work was to prepare a model for training elite handball players that would allow anticipating a model of sport performance. One alternative experiments of training Kaunas Granitas team have been pursued every year during the period of 1981-2006. Change of training program content and extent of loads made an essence of the experiments. Kaunas Granitas handball team has trained and participated in matches averagely 251± 30 days during the season; it has trained 309±60 training sessions, played 98±8,4 matches; the total load falling on them consisted of 857±144 hours. Training types formed the following structure (in per cents): integral training (32±2,9%), tactical (26,8±2,1%), technical (20,3±2,4%), physical (13,8±3,1%), and theoretical (7,1±2,5%). Sport performance was characterised by the efficiency of defence (51,4±1,8%), distribution of the position attacks (84±4,7%) and their efficiency (60,7%±32%), distribution of the counterattacks (15,2±1,8%) and their efficiency (35±3%). Efficiency of the attack was 46,8±6,4%; distribution of the position attacks (79,1±3,1%) and their efficiency (42,4±3,6%), distribution of the counterattacks (20,9±3,1%) and their efficiency (47,4±3,9%). The most significant effect on the efficiency of the handball team attack and defence had a number of matches played per year. The essential effect on the efficiency of the attack had a number of played matches (r=0,437), a number of training sessions (r=0,457), a number of the training session days (r=0,488). A great link was established between the efficiency of the attack and training hours (r=0,734). A slight effect on the efficiency of the attack had a theoretical training (r=0,312) and a physical training (r=0,323). Essential significance to the efficiency of the defence had an integral training (r=0,425) and a number of played matches (r=0,367). Structure of the training loads and training types expressed in per cent still does not allow establishing precisely handball playing quality and to estimate about sport performance of the team.
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