SPORT: Principles of Training

SPORT:

Principles of Training

Multiple Choice

What does the S stand for?

• Sports

• Specificity

• Special

• Sprints

Specificity

• Train what you want to improve

• Specific to the skills and muscles needed for your sport or fitness goal

• Example: the training of a basketball player will be different than a boxer

Multiple Choice

What does the P stand for?

• Principles

• Prosper

• Progression

• Police

Progression

• To continue to develop fitness, the training program must get progressively harder

• Progress slowly to avoid injury

• Example: adding 5 lbs. weight every other week to your weight lifting

Multiple Choice

What does the O stand for?

• Overload

• Obstacle

• Obese

• Opposite

Overload

• To increase fitness, we need to progress to more difficult workouts

• Apply the FITT guidelines - increase the Frequency, Intensity, Time or change Type of exercise

• Example: Walking becomes too easy, add intensity by hiking up a mountain

• Example: Skating 2 times a week is too easy, add more days per week

Multiple Choice

What does the R stand for?

• Relevant

• Reversibility

• Reduction

• Respiration

Reversibility

• When training stops, fitness levels drop

• Atrophy = muscles loose strength and shrink back to normal state

• Example: Skipping practice

• Example: Taking too many days off between workouts

Multiple Choice

What does the T stand for?

• Target

• Trust

• Tradition

• Tedium

Tedium

• Training must be varied to keep up motivation

• Doing the same thing over and over can become boring mentally

• Always doing the same workout can get "stale" and strength, endurance and flexibility will not continue to improve

Poll

Which principle do you think is the most important for training?

• Specificity

• Progression

• Overload

• Reversibility

• Tedium