Sports training
Speaker 1
Well, I play tennis every Saturday – I'm in a competition, and I have to train, I suppose, during the week, when I have time. I just go to the courts and hit the ball ... over and over and over again. I also go jogging when I can to keep fit, keep up my general fitness. I'm not a professional, I only train about twice a week for a couple of hours whenever I can. It doesn't matter if I miss a training session. And I've been injured once or twice – nothing serious, really. I've had tennis elbow, which is a typical injury from playing tennis, but that was just from too much training. I was training too much at that stage.
Speaker 2
A: So if you're a basketball player at university level, what does your training involve?
B: Um, well we all go to the gym together, and our coach has worked out a series of exercises which strengthen and lengthen our muscles. And we spend a lot of time actually on the court, practising passing to each other, scoring, cause obviously everybody needs to be able to throw well and accurately and score points.
A: And how much does the training affect your daily life?
B: Well, I – I mean, I train every day when I finish my classes – for up to two hours sometimes – so you know, I'm often very tired in the evening.
A: And I know it's a contact sport, basketball, and people get hurt. Have you ever been injured?
B: Only once. It was a very, very important match, actually, and unfortunately I broke my ankle right at the beginning and had to be substituted. It was very painful.
Speaker 3
We trained a lot in this sport. Our trainers made us do lots of running, lots of hard physical exercise, and of course they got us to practise kicking the ball a lot to improve our accuracy. It was extremely rigorous, training – we had to run every day and train every day. But eventually I had to give up because I had repeated knee injuries that just kept getting worse – it's very typical in this sport – and that's why eventually I stopped playing.