Проблема непосредственной подготовки спортсменов к соревнованиям по праву может быть отнесена к числу наиболее важных, требующих глубокого научного обоснования, поскольку ее практическая реализация определяет достижения спортсменов на главных соревнованиях, включая чемпионаты мира, Олимпийские игры и др.
Проблема безпосередньої підготовки спортсменів до змагань по праву може бути віднесена до числа найбільш важливих , вимагають глибокого наукового обґрунтування, оскільки її практична реалізація визначає досягнення спортсменів на головних змаганнях , включаючи чемпіонати світу , Олімпійські ігри та ін .
The problems of the direct training of sportsmen to competitions can be related to the most important, needing the scientific in-depth argumentation as far as the practical realization defines the results of sportsmen in the main competitions including the world championship, Olympic games, etc.The analysis of the Ukrainian and foreign athletes’ performance in the main competitions of the season shows that the overwhelming majority of sportsmen does not achieve their best results. The existing situation is proved by the research where it is mentioned that only 15-20 (fifteen – twenty) per cent of athletes, swimmers, and weightlifters that take part in the most outstanding competitions achieve their best results of the season there. The rest shows their best results before and after main competitions. One of the main reasons of such a tendency can be considered the absence of scholar researches that are connected with the optimization of the training process on the phase of direct before-emulative training to the crucial competition; during this training there is the necessity to accumulate the conditions for the maximum ability performance of a decathlon competitor. The analysis of the specific literature and the experience in the training of high qualification sportsmen gives the possibility to ascertain that from the general-theoretical and methodological points of view the problem of the direct training of sportsmen to competitions is not sufficiently developed yet and can be solved on the basis of the scientific reasoning of the notion “the direct training for competition” including the wording of goal, objective, the principle means and methods, the length of corresponding phase, its structure, place in the general system of sportsmen training, criteria of the training effectiveness and the sportsmen readiness for a competition. Analyzing the poor performance of the Ukrainian all-round athletes in the world championship of 2015 and in the XXX Olympic Games, we came to the conclusion that one of the main reasons of the poor performance of our decathlon competitors in these competitions should be considered the errors in the direct training for the com.