Principles and Methods of Athletic Training

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

When you stop training you lose any strength, tone or skill that have been previously gained.

• Reversibility

• Variation

• Regression

• Backwards

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

• Variation

• Type

• Specificity

• Adaptation

What should all training be followed by?

• Rest and Recovery

• Rehab and Food

• Another training session

• A Mars Bar to say well done.