Berlin The essence of special sports is targeted sports content that is bound to a specific sports event and fully serves the field or performance of the event. The individually organized competitive events such as basketball, football, marathon, free boxing, short track speed skating, and synchronized swimming that we are familiar with every day all belong to the category of special sports.
Many people may think that special events are only for professional athletes and are far away from ordinary enthusiasts. In fact, this is not the case. I coached an amateur who ran a half marathon two years ago. He could squat 130 kilograms with his legs and hold a plank for 6 minutes. His general strength training was very solid. However, he was always stuck at 1 hour and 35 minutes and couldn't finish the half marathon. Later, I adjusted his plan and made it 1 hour and 35 minutes. Half of the general training time was replaced by running-specific content - 400-meter interval running twice a week, additional training on hip flexor strength and ankle joint stability, and targeted changes in stride ratio. In just over two months, I achieved a PB of 8 minutes. The effect is much faster than just stacking strength.
The boundaries of special sports are actually quite controversial in the sports circle today. Many coaches who have backgrounds in professional teams believe that only systematic professional/semi-professional training aimed at competitive performance can be considered a special sport. Hobby-level sports such as playing badminton twice a week or climbing mountains three times a week cannot be considered as special sports.； However, there are also many fitness practitioners for the public who believe that as long as you have a regular participation in sports, targeted training-related content, such as wrist explosive training for badminton, cross-footwork in front of the net, and even forearm antagonist muscle strength training to avoid tennis elbow, are essentially part of a specialized sport.
If you go to the gym and observe carefully, you will find that those old golfers who have been playing for seven or eight years will not run around the stadium for ten minutes during the warm-up. They will first throw lofty balls for 20 minutes and step into the four half-court corners. This is their own special warm-up logic. It is much more effective than the general warm-up. It is not easy to sprain your feet after playing for two hours. In fact, there is really no need to worry about the definition of death or not. Targeted training that is useful for the sport you participate in and can help you improve your experience and reduce injuries is special content that is useful to you.
