Abstract: Objective: To reveal the evolution path from 1997-2014 of research hotspots and research fronts of physical fitness training .Methods: A total of 1888 papers published between 1997 and 2014 are retrieved from Wed of Science with a topic search of physical fitness training. Scientific knowledge national Atlas analysis techniques are used to analyze the international physical training research characteristics. Results: USA published the largest number of papers with Pennington Biomed Res Ctr and Univ Jyvaskyla etc. as the main research institutes. Leetun DT 、Montgomery HE,Kraemer WJ and Pollock ML are the powerful authors ; Med Sci Sport Exer,Sports Med,J Appl Physiol,Int J Sports Med,J Strength Cond Res are the core journals that publish the articles in the field. The analysis of research frontier and its evolution path reveals that the international researches on physical fitness training develop in two different directions of competitive fitness training and health fitness training. There appeared a kind of overlap between the two in the researches of core strength and core stability between 2005 and 2010.

Key words: physical fitness training, Cite Space, research focus, research fronts, visualization analysis