Endurance Sport
Endurance refers to any action which include some hardships, it is also refers to any habit, practice, or job which require definite strength, stamina, hardships and patience. These jobs have to perform again and again to build stamina. Endurance sports refer to that sports which require all these abilities described above. Although every game need practice to perform better as well as better timing requirements but the nature of every game is not so as included in the list of endurance sport. Basically running, marathon and swimming are called as an endurance sport, these games are not invented in modern ages but these games belong to the ancient times and these three games are also be called the most civilized games of man in ancient times when there was no culture of sports and no idea of sports requirements.
Running events belong to the ancient Greeks, they played running events in their annual sports festival called Olympics in order to give tribute to their Gods for the giving and honor them with victory over other nations. Running is the fundamental part of ancient Olympics and played by almost all people of Greece. Greece people thought ill about that person who didn’t know about running and swimming or also not to participate in running events. However they have no idea about swimming competitions they took it as a habit. Running is also included in their army training, many track events were held especially for soldiers and winners are awarded promotions in army and with gold and silvers as well by the King. Many Running depictions of nearly 850 BC are available in Nimrud British museum, and in most of these running depictions, the runners are in the uniforms of army, reveled that mostly running competitions are meant for soldiers as their war training.
After the Modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, endurance sports have grown well; people took keen interest in these sports and now a day many organizations are working for these endurance sports separately. These organizations have set the sports culture in many parts of the world especially in America and Europe. They have also worked a lot for the development and progress of sports personal related to that game. These international governing bodies of different endurance sports also contribute a lot for different modification according to the modern approach; they introduced many regulations about rules, standards and types of events. Modern culture of sports include different sports wear, like endurance sports eyewear, endurance sports apparels, sports gears, endurance sports protective gear etc.
As endurance sports required more power and stamina it also have injuries risks more compared to many other games so governing bodies worked a lot to introduce protective gear and made regulations about their use, in order to make their game safe and sound so that its charm remains and multiple. They also made regulations about endurance sports nutrition, they introduced many eatables for the players to eat and drink, as nutrition plays a vital role in making the game better of even in minimizing the injuries and diseases problems so they made many regulations about nutrition and recommended their use for endurance game players, usually these eatable include snacks for endurance sports, that can be used during marathon run, but many eatables belong to the training schedules. They also hold many competitions to cherish their players and awarded many prizes and medals for the player to encourage his skills. Many regular events are also held by these official governing bodies are considered as the world biggest events in that game such as FINA which is the world largest and official governing body for swimmers holds FINA world cup which is the biggest title of the year in swimming competition.
