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  2. Pacing strategies in track and field - Wikipedia

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    Optimal strategies exist and have been studied for the different events of track and field. These optimal strategies differ for runners in sprint events , such as the 100 meters , runners in middle-distance events , such as the 800 meters or the mile run , [ 3 ] and runners in long-distance events , such as the 5000m [ 4 ] or marathon . [ 5 ]

  3. Fully automatic time - Wikipedia

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    The system is commonly used in track and field as well as athletic performance testing, horse racing, dog racing, bicycle racing, rowing and auto racing. In these fields a photo finish is used. It is also used in competitive swimming, for which the swimmers themselves record a finish time by touching a touchpad at the end of a race. In order to ...

  4. Fartlek - Wikipedia

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    Fartlek is a middle and long-distance runner's training approach developed in the late 1930s by Swedish Olympian Gösta Holmér. [1] It has been described as a relatively unscientific blending of continuous training (e.g., long slow distance training), with its steady pace of moderate-high intensity aerobic intensity, [2] and interval training, with its “spacing of more intense exercise and ...

  5. Track and field - Wikipedia

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    The two basic features of a track and field stadium are the outer oval-shaped running track and an area of turf within this track—the field. In earlier competitions, track lengths varied: the Panathinaiko Stadium measured 333.33 metres at the 1896 Summer Olympics , while at the 1904 Olympics the distance was a third of a mile (536.45 m) at ...

  6. Sprint (running) - Wikipedia

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    Track events were measured with the metric system except for the United Kingdom and the United States until 1965 and 1974 respectively. The Amateur Athletic Association (AAU) [citation needed] decided to switch track and field in the U.S. to the metric system to finally make track and field internationally equivalent.

  7. Velocity based training - Wikipedia

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    These include barbell sports such as powerlifting [3] and Olympic weightlifting and Crossfit, as well as rock climbing [4].Velocity based training is widely adopted across professional sporting clubs, [5] with the data supporting many periodisation decisions for coaches in the weight room and on the field.

  8. Bob Kersee - Wikipedia

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    In 1980, Kersee moved to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was an assistant coach for four years.He then became the head coach in 1984 and established his reputation for training elite level athletes, such as Florence Griffith Joyner, Gail Devers, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Al Joyner, Allyson Felix, and, more recently, Athing Mu and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

  9. Plyometrics - Wikipedia

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    This training focuses on learning to move from a muscle extension to a contraction in a rapid or "explosive" manner, such as in specialized repeated jumping. [1] Plyometrics are primarily used by athletes, especially martial artists, sprinters and high jumpers, [2] to improve performance, [3] and are used in the fitness field to a much lesser ...