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Stress management techniques

Ice sports and track and field

Bobsleigher and heptathlete Serita Shone explains stress management techniques

All of the major exam boards require knowledge of stress management techniques.

It is becoming increasingly common for athletes to transition from trackand-field events such as sprinting, long jump and multi-events, to ice sports such as skeleton and bobsleigh. The similarities between the different sports from a physiological aspect is what allows athletes to transition so quickly. The recruitment of the fast-twitch muscle fibres in sprinting is the same for skeleton and bobsleigh. It is the equivalent of a 60m sprint, only instead of being conducted on a running track, it is on ice. There are other similarities that allow athletes to transition from track to ice quicker than between other sports.

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