Athletics: Disciplines, Techniques, and Competitions
Athletics: Techniques and Competitions
Running Disciplines
Shares Techniques
Running events can be categorized by distance and type:
- Speed: 100m, 200m, and 400m
- Middle-distance: 800m and 1500m
- Long-distance: 3000m (women’s), 5000m, 10000m, and the marathon
- Hurdles: 100m hurdles (women), 110m hurdles (men), 400m hurdles, and 3000m steeplechase
- Relay: 4x100m and 4x400m
- Race walking: 10km, 20km, and 50km (men)
Running Technique
The running stride has two phases:
- Stance phase: This includes landing, which provides
Early Warning Signs and Educational Adaptations for Children
Warning Signs in Child Development
Alterations may relate to development in general, or specific patterns. These are indicative, so the final determination will be the work of a perceptual and motor specialist.
Developmental Warning Signs:
- Any type of deformation previously undetected.
- Clumsy and uncoordinated walking.
- Complaining of excessive fatigue when walking.
- Continued and charged tremor.
- Dubious or unsafe movements.
- Not measuring distances and often colliding with objects or people.
- Giving exaggerated
Understanding Health, Exercise, and Nutrition
What is Health?
Often associated with the absence of disease, health is more than just not being sick. It’s a state of complete well-being.
Benefits of Physical Exercise
Individuals who engage in regular physical exercise experience significant improvements in their overall health. These improvements are based on the principle of supercompensation, where the body’s systems adapt and become more efficient. After exercise, the body recovers and becomes stronger.
Physiological Adaptations to Exercise
Effects
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Creating a Safe and Supportive Environment
- Environmental Hazards: Caregivers should identify and eliminate environmental hazards.
- Orientation: Maintain the patient’s orientation by addressing them by name and frequently stating the day, month, time, and place.
- Consistency: Maintain consistent caregivers and avoid leaving the patient alone with strangers.
- Routine: Establish a daily program of activities.
- Space: Use posters and drawings to help the patient identify their space. Keep the space as unaltered
Flexibility and Speed Training Methods
Develop Training Methods for Flexibility
The range of motion can be worked in a static (stretching without movement; we must be careful to force postures) and dynamic (stretching with movement) way. The preferred method is static-dynamic. Methods are divided into active and passive methods.
Active Methods
- Ballistic
- Static Free
- Active Assisted
Passive Methods
- Passive
- Enhanced Passive
Systems that work on range of motion include PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation) and stretching. The PNF method
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Assisted Restricted Exercises
Assisted restricted exercises are defined as exercises where the forces of resistance offered to the action of the working muscles are applied to develop muscle power and endurance.
Principles of Resistance:
An external force may be applied to the body’s levers to oppose the force of muscular contraction. Tension is created within the muscle by the opposing forces, leading to hypertrophy and increased power.
- It develops in response to the application of the maximum resistance