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PE 7 Lesson 3 Week 3 Athletics

The document provides an overview of athletics including its history, events, facilities, and skills. It discusses the origins and development of athletics from ancient times. The main events of athletics are divided into track events like sprints, jumps, and throws. Facilities needed for athletics include a track, hurdles, and equipment for different events. Jogging provides health benefits like weight loss and stress relief.

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PE 7 Lesson 3 Week 3 Athletics

The document provides an overview of athletics including its history, events, facilities, and skills. It discusses the origins and development of athletics from ancient times. The main events of athletics are divided into track events like sprints, jumps, and throws. Facilities needed for athletics include a track, hurdles, and equipment for different events. Jogging provides health benefits like weight loss and stress relief.

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LET’S WATCH

GUIDE QUESTIONS
1. What does the video imply?

2. What are the events/categories involve in the sports?


HISTORY OF ATHLETICS
The following are athletics contest during prehistoric.

1. Running
2. Walking
3. Jumping
4. Throwing
▪ Athletics events were depicted in the Ancient Egyptian
Tomb in Saqqara with illustrations of running at the Heb
festival.

▪ Stadium- is the stadium-length running event, original


and only event at the first Olympics in 776 BC
Stadium- is the venue where running event take place.
▪ High jumping appearing in tombs from as early as of
2250 BC.
▪ Athletics competitions also took place at the other
Panhellenic Games founded around 500 BC.
What is Athletics?
▪ Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that
involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and
walking.

▪ The name "athletics" is derived from the Greek word


"athlos" meaning "contest".

▪ Commonly known as track and field.


International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)

▪ The sports governing body for the sports.

▪ Founded on July 17, 1912 at Stockholm, Sweden.


Athletics 5 Discipline
▪ Track and Field
▪ Road Running
▪ Race Walking
▪ Cross Country Running
▪ Mountain Running
Groupings Reporting
Group 1 Facilities and equipment used in athletics
Group 2 Official list of events played at the Olympic games
Group 3 Basic skills
Group 4 Jogging and its benefits
Facilities and Equipments in Athletics

1. Track
Oval
2. Baton
3. Hurdles
4. Starting Blocks
5. Starting Gun
6. Spike Shoes
7. High Jump
8. Landing Pit (Long Jump)
9. Hammer Ball
Categories/Events in
Athletics
CATEGORIES PLAYED IN ATHLETICS
I. TRACK EVENTS

➢ Track events often involve a field or a running track of


varying measurements.
➢ These events are typically held in a 400-meter track.
Official list of events played at the Olympic Games
▪ Sprints
▪ Middle distance events
▪ Long distance events
▪ Hurdles
▪ Relays
▪ Jumps
▪ Throws
▪ Combined Events
A. Short Distance or Sprints
➢ Sprint is a short running
race.
➢ Three different sprint
distances:
❑ 100m
❑ 200m
❑ 400m
B. Middle Distance
➢These races require different skills and tactics to win.
➢It rely more on endurance and pacing than just pure speed.
➢ Runners don't stay in a single lane for the entire race.
➢ Middle-distance races are;
❑ 800m
❑ 1500m
❑ 3000m
C. Long Distance
➢These races are similar to the middle-distance races,
but the emphasis is even more on correct pacing and
endurance.
➢Long-distance races:
❑ 3000m
❑ 5000m
❑ 10,000m
D. Hurdles
➢Is one in which obstacles are
placed at intervals along the
track that the runners must jump
over on their way the finish line.

❑100m
❑400m for women
❑110m and 400m for men
E. Relays

➢ Teams of runners compete against each other.


➢ Typically, four runners and four legs to the race.
➢ The first runner starts with the baton and runs the first leg
handing off to the second runner.
Common relay races are;
❑ 4x100m
❑ 4x400m.
F. Jumps
➢ The jumping events includes the following;
❑ Long Jump
❑ Triple Jump
❑ High Jump
❑ Pole vault.
G. Throws
➢ Require great strength and throwers are usually the
biggest athletes in any athletic competition.
❑ Shot Put
❑ Discuss Throw
❑ Hammer Throw
❑ Javelin Throw
Phases of Running
Phases of Sprinting
1. Starting Phase- Where the sprinter is in contact with the
blocks.
2. Acceleration Phase- Increase stride length and stride
frequency.
3. Constant Speed- Characterized by both the stride length
and stride frequency remaining the same over a period of
time.
4. Deceleration- Decrease in sprinting speed.
Phases of Sprinting
ACTION OF THE LEGS
1. Recovery phase
▪ The rear foot leaves the ground.

2. Driving phase
▪ The lead foot touches the ground.
FOOT ACTION
1. Heel Ball Action
▪ The heel hits the ground first.
▪ More efficient over long
distances because there is
less strain put on the muscles
of the calf.
FOOT ACTION
1. Ball-heel-ball Action
▪ The runner initially settles on
the ball of the foot, then
momentarily transfers the
body's weight to the heel, and
then rolls forward again to the
ball for the driving phase.
RUNNING SIGNALS

ON YOUR MARK!

SET

GO
Jogging
➢ Is one of the most accessible forms of exercise.
➢ It is also a form of running at a slow or leisurely
pace.
➢ Performed over long distance, a form of aerobic
endurance training.
Benefits of Jogging
1. One of the most efficient ways to achieve aerobic fitness.
2. Helps to lose weight.
3. Done inexpensively.
4. Convenient indoors or outdoors
5. Good stress reliever.
6. Can run alone or with others for social interaction.
7. Prevent diseases.
APPLICATION
1. How will you incorporate the knowledge you gained today
into your regular activities?

2. Based on what we discussed today how can you describe


Athletics as a sport?

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