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IAAF TRAINING CAMP FOR SPRINT, 16 - 25 MARCH 2008

Among others, athletes and coaches underwent sprint drills and sprint session. Sprint drills included ankle rolls, run through, high march walk, run through, touch bounding, high knees lifts, butt kicks and backward running; quick step hurdle drills covered over the top and sideways; and video analysis of sprint starts focusing on standing starts, 3-point starts block starts for selected athletes.

The training camp also included a pool session including warm up, running drills, wall leg swings, combo depth jumps swim and drills, fin swimming, deep water running and warm down. In circuit weight training, participants were in introduced to various weight training exercises that include prone rows, Swiss ball dumbbell press, bench press, leg press, incline sit ups, upright rows, stretch, back extensions, lat pull downs, leg splits with bar, cable rows, dips, and med ball throws on balance disks.

Other activities could also be used such as push ups, squat jumps, drop squats, lunges, single leg standing, skipping, split jumps, mule kicks, burpees, step ups, step downs, leg splits in burpee position, skipping and leg lifts or hip lifts.

As injuries are almost inevitable consequences of training and competition, athletes and coaches immersed themselves to various issues on injury prevention and rehabilitation. These included why injuries occur, hidden tools in recovery, injury prevention and recovery tools. It is important that coaches and athletes are able to deal with injuries positively. Positive attitude assists rehabilitation while injured athletes usually display depression and anxiety. Injured athletes should look after other sections of body and look at long term goals. There are several hidden tools in recovery including hydration, nutrition and digestion, sleep, warm up and cool down. Injury prevention requires sufficient skill and depends on athlete's fitness and fatigue level status. Training and competition environments as well as training loads play roles in injury prevention.

Choosing appropriate clothing and equipment is another way to prevent injury such socks which can act as shock absorbers. Athletes must also obey rules and regulations. Concerning the athletes, sharing sessions were given on early specialization that can cause injury due to muscle imbalance because of one sided exercises, incorrect training practices and poor design of program with too quick load increase and inadequate recovery.

Recovery tools include massage, self massage, stretching, ice baths, ice massage, contrast baths, sea water, pool work, and hydro therapies such as sauna, showers and spa. Another useful recovery tool is nutrition as science, which has made great gains in providing information on sports nutrition.

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