The purpose of this study are to identify Group training in view of athletics trainingrnprinciples in mugger and defense athletics sport clubs. The subject in this study were 40rnmiddle and long distance trainee athletes`, 6 coaches of the respective field and one seniorrncoach and one former staff member, selected from the total populations of 80, 6 and 2rnrespectively. As a method of data gathering tools; questionnaires and interview werernemployed. To analysis the collected data, both qualitative and quantitative methods such asrndescriptive statements and percentage were on use respectively. The result of the studyrnrevealed that trainee middle and long distance athletes practice 6 days per week having twornsessions per day for 2:00 hours. The main reason to apply group training is there are unproportionalrntrained man powers (coaches) in the field when we compared with the numberrnof the athletes. To overcome these problems the following recommendations have beenrnforwarded. The response from coaches and athletes is somewhat mixed, for and againstrngroup training, coaches should take in to consideration about individual difference in theirrntraining sessions, working with all stakeholders so as curb the problems of shortage ofrnqualified man power; working with jointly with regional sport commissions, clubs and sportrnorganizations, Ethiopia athletics federation etc and more should be done in having qualifiedrncoaches in the demand of the field in each clubs; on regular abases of training should bernoffered for coaches