Sports training

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Sports training refers to specialized strategies and methods of exercise used in various sports to develop athletes and prepare them for performing in sporting events.

Sports training methods

Besides conventional exercise methods, various training methods used by athletes include:

• Altitude training
• Boxing training
• Brick workouts
• Complex training
• Continuous training
• Cross training
• Endurance training
• Grip strength training
• Interval training
• Long Slow Distance
• Pilates
• Strength training
  • Resistance training
• Weight training
  • Training to failure

Specialized equipment used in sports training

• Heart rate monitor

See also

• Overtraining
• Sports medicine
• Sports nutrition
• Physical education