What are the functions of track and field sports?

Track and field is a very important event in sports, and track and field itself has many different events. In addition to its fitness effects, it can also better train a person's willpower, so it is a very important sport. Let us now specifically understand and understand the important roles that track and field plays in life.

Track and field sports are developed through long-term human social practice. They include more than 40 individual events such as walking, running, jumping and throwing for men and women, as well as an all-around sport consisting of partial events of running, jumping, and throwing. Walking and running events where results are calculated by time are called track events. Jumping and throwing events whose results are calculated by height and distance are called "field events". Track and field sports is the full name for track events, field events and all-around competitions. Athletics is the foundation of all sports. Regular and scientific participation in track and field sports can promote the body's metabolism, improve the regulatory function of the nervous system and the function of internal organs, and improve the body's health level and work ability. Through track and field sports teaching and training, people's physical quality (speed, strength, endurance, etc.) can be fully developed, sports technology and sports performance can be improved, and people's courage, tenacity, perseverance and decisive will qualities can be cultivated.

Therefore, other sports use track and field as a means to develop physical fitness and as a basis for improving techniques and tactics. There are many track and field sports, which are generally individual sports with high intensity, strong competitiveness and various forms of exercise. They are not restricted by the number of people, age, gender, season, climate and other conditions, making them easy to develop widely. Track and field sports have a long history and a broad mass base. Athletics has a great influence in the international sports arena. In all previous Olympic Games and other large-scale competitions, track and field competitions were held in the central stadium. It is also the event with the most medals. Countries around the world attach great importance to the development of track and field sports and regard it as an important indicator to measure a country's overall sports level.

In ancient times, in order to obtain the necessities of life, people had to walk or run considerable distances, jump over various obstacles, throw stones and use various hunting tools in their struggle with nature and beasts. By constantly repeating these actions during labor, various skills such as walking, running, jumping and throwing are formed. With the development of society. People consciously use walking, running, jumping and throwing as forms of practice and competition. Physiologists and experienced coaches once predicted the upper limit of track and field performance, but in the past, these predictions were broken one by one by the practice of athletes. There have been a considerable number of events recorded in the historical Olympic Games, which shows that there is no peak in track and field performance, which is also why track and field events are so popular.

In fact, exercise and fitness have always been something we need to pay attention to and persist in, because we all know that if we lack exercise and fitness, our physical fitness will decline, and we will be more susceptible to the effects and injuries of certain diseases. Therefore, we need to improve our physical fitness through these exercises to help us effectively prevent and solve the harm caused by diseases.