Fitness Basics Unit 1-3

The ability to use strength quickly

• Power

• Agility

• Lift

The number of times you exercise each week.

• Frequency

• Frequent

• Training Schedule

• Time

How hard the exercise is.

• Intensity

• Overload

• Difficulty

• Type

How long each session lasts.

• Time

• Type

• Progression

• Frequency

The nature of exercise that the performer completes.

• Type

• Frequency

• Variation

• Specificity

Focusing training on activities and exercises relevant to an individual's sporting goals and needs

• Specificity

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Type

Training at an appropriate intensity and gradually increasing the amount of stress placed on the body

• Progressive Overload

• Adaptation

• Intensity

• Type

By ensuring that you progressively overload your body you encourage it to adapt to new stresses being placed upon it.

• Adaptation

• Variation

• Instensity

• Specificity

Changing the training you do so that you don't get bored and continue to enjoy your training.

• Variation

• Type

• Specificity

• Adaptation

I am going to increase the weight I bench press every week by 1kg. What additional principle of training am I applying?

• Progressive overload

• Specificity

• Adaptation

• Individual needs