Unit 8 Lesson 1

Unit 8 Specialised Fitness training

Learning Objectives

Specialised fitness training provides the tools and framework

to identify the key performance factors and target fitness

training programs for an athlete’s improvement.

So what is this unit?

Specialised fitness training provides the tools and framework to identify the key performance factors and target fitness training programs for an athlete’s improvement.

​What is the benefit of this unit?

This unit will prepare you for progression to higher education or a career in sport coaching or the fitness industry, by developing your skills of interpretation and presentation of information, as well as the analysis and understanding of sports training and performance

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What jobs would this link to?

Learning aims

The aims in this unit

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So what is a fitness component?

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How many components of fitness can you name?

Link the skill component with the definition

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The ability of a single/group of muscles to exert maximal force or overcome a maximal resistance in a single contraction. Strength generated is in direct proportion to the size of muscle.​

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The ability to move a joint through a complete – and natural- range of motion without discomfort or pain.

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The ability of the heart, lungs, blood vessels (arteries and veins) and skeletal muscle to take in transport and use oxygen and use oxygen efficiently over a prolonged period of time.​

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The ability to coordinate the body to change direction quickly while maintaining control.​

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The maximum rate at which an individual can perform a movement or cover a distance in a period of time.​

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is the ability of the body to retain the centre of mass over the base of support.

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Actions where the movement requires a rapid rate of force development. This means recruiting a high number of motor units (muscle fibres and motor neurons) to generate a rapid force of contraction in the shortest time possible,

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The time taken to initiate a response to a stimulus.

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SCENARIO A​

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Lianne is a gymnast and must perform in a competition that includes floor and beam routines. She is a recent Junior Champion but has struggled since making the step up to Senior competitions and her confidence has suffered a lot. Her coach has been watching videos of her recent performances to try to identify areas to improve so she can develop her confidence and achieve higher positions in future competitions.

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Rob is a 100m athlete who has struggled to achieve anywhere near his personal best in recent competitions. He is becoming increasingly nervous before races because he is putting more and more pressure on himself to improve. This caused him to be disqualified from his last race from starting too early. 

In your notebook

1. Define the components of fitness. (Speed, CV, Muscular endurance, Strength - Isometric and Isotonic, Explosive power, Agility, Balance, Flexibility, Reaction time) ​

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2. Why is flexibility important when performing a gymnastics routine? ​

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3. Why is reaction time important when sprinting? ​

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4. Give an example of when you have needed to have good balance to perform effectively in sport.

Task

  As a pair you need to come up with a TRAINING session to improve three components of fitness.

Note - You are training it not testing it,

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Task for Wednesday - Characteristics of sport

I want you to pick an elite athlete and find the following and I want you to do it for yourself as well.


Characteristic of single performance (duration, recovery periods, extent of influence - contact/weather/impact)
Types of activity that is included (Multi-sprint activity/ Skill based, Fitness based)
Characteristics of athletes performance cycles (Types of competition, Repetition and frequency of performance)

Task will be set on teams for you to submit on.