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  2. Athletic training - Wikipedia

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    Athletic trainer attending to a Portland Thorns player. The traditional setting for athletic trainers is embedded within a sports team. [7] [8] [9] In the United States, over 40% of athletic trainers work at an educational institution, including universities, secondary schools, and middle schools, providing health care to student athletes.

  3. Fitness boot camp - Wikipedia

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    This regimen was assimilated into the training of the British Army, which formed the Army Gymnastic Staff in 1861 and made sport an important part of military life. [4] [5] [6] The term "boot" originates from U.S. Navy and Marine recruits in the Spanish–American War (1898) who wore leggings called boots; these recruits were trained in "boot ...

  4. Sprint (running) - Wikipedia

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    Sprint training includes various running workouts, targeting acceleration, speed development, speed endurance, special endurance, and tempo endurance. Additionally, athletes perform intense strength training workouts, as well as plyometric or jumping workouts.

  5. List of athletics events - Wikipedia

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    The sport of athletics is defined by the many events which make up its competition programmes. All events within the sport are forms of running , walking , jumping or throwing . These events are divided into the sub-sports of track and field , road running , racewalking and cross country running .

  6. Training camp - Wikipedia

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    A training camp is an organized period in which military personnel or athletes participate in a rigorous and focused schedule of training in order to learn or improve skills. [1] Athletes typically utilise training camps to prepare for upcoming events, and in competitive sports, to focus on developing skills and strategies to defeat their ...

  7. Sport of athletics - Wikipedia

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    The sport became professionalised as footmen were hired specifically on their athletic ability and began to devote their lives to training for the gambling events. The amateur sports movement in the late 19th century marginalised competitions based on the professional, gambling model.

  8. Department of Physical Education - Wikipedia

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    In addition to evaluating one of the core physical program courses, instructors teach an elective lifetime sport and/or a cognitive exercise science or applied fitness course. Instructors also serve on additional committees such as the Competitive Sports, Testing, & Assessment committees, or may work with the department's operations & plans, or ...

  9. Athletics (physical culture) - Wikipedia

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    Athletics is a term encompassing the human competitive sports and games requiring physical skill, and the systems of training that prepare athletes for competitive performance. [1] [2] Athletic sports or contests are competitions which are primarily based on human physical competition, demanding the qualities of stamina, fitness, and skill.

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