Exercise or practice under the direction of athletic trainers or professional coaches to develop skills, improve physical condition, or prepare for competitions.

“Exercise or practice under the direction of athletic trainers or professional coaches to develop skills, improve physical condition, or prepare for competitions.” is a core task performed by Athletes and Sports Competitors. Among the occupation's 9 rated tasks, workers place it 4th by importance (#6 most important). About 94% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Perform athletic activities for fitness, competition, or artistic purposes. in Performing General Physical Activities

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Assess performance following athletic competition, identifying strengths and weaknesses and making adjustments to improve future performance. · importance 4.2
• Maintain equipment used in a particular sport. · importance 4.2
• Attend scheduled practice or training sessions. · importance 4.2
• Maintain optimum physical fitness levels by training regularly, following nutrition plans, or consulting with health professionals. · importance 4.0
• Participate in athletic events or competitive sports, according to established rules and regulations. · importance 4.0
• Receive instructions from coaches or other sports staff prior to events and discuss performance afterwards. · importance 3.9
• Represent teams or professional sports clubs, performing such activities as meeting with members of the media, making speeches, or participating in charity events. · importance 3.6
• Lead teams by serving as captain. · importance 3.4

See all tasks on the Athletes and Sports Competitors page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-13035,
  title  = {Exercise or practice under the direction of athletic trainers or professional coaches to develop skills, improve physical condition, or prepare for competitions.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-13035}
}