“Athletics for students” is a useful guide for anyone who intends to have an active life style. This is a book for present times, when the students are involved in physical education classes, and for future, when they will compensate the desk work with physical exercises, on their free will.
The advantage of athletics is the natural movements it uses – walking, running, jumping and throwing. Each event is technical described and accompanied by drawings for an easier understanding. Also some historical data, records and Rumanian important performances are included in this Olympic athletic events survey.
The events technical models are followed by a teaching progression steps by which a beginner, using this guide, can learn the basics. The methodical steps for the most common events for running, jumping and throwing are presented in addition to visual information. The paper reveals the activities that anyone can practice independently, as jogging, and the main rules someone must know for an efficient time and effort investment.
This book contains a chapter about how we can develop our fitness components, presenting orientate programs for each one of this abilities and emphasizing those open to improvement at our student’s age.
The closing chapter contains some rules about effort in athletics, the principles of programming this physical activities and notions about recovery and personal and environmental hygiene.