Principles of Training

The principle that relates to training alone or with others

• Group/individual training

• Team training

• Gym training

• Solo training

You get what you train for

• Speciality

• Specificity

• Specialisation

• Specific

The length of each training session and also the length of the training programme

• Programmes

• Gains

• Time

• Duration

This is required for the body to adapt and repair and recover

• Adaption

• Rest

• Recovery

• Regularity

The amount of training sessions performed a week

• Regularity

• Duration

• Frequency

• Specificity

Training needs to be the correct frequency and duration to meet this principle

• Intensity

• Regularity

• Variety

• Adaptation

How hard each training session is - can be measured in a variety of ways eg training heart rate

• Interval

• Intense

• Specificity

• Intensity

Gains in fitness are rapid initially then plateau after time

• Reversibility

• Diminishing returns

• Adaptation

• Regularity

When training is paused for a period of time, athletes may experience this principle

• Loss of motivation

• Boredom

• Diminishing returns

• Reversibility

In order to improve, certain factors need to be changed within the training sessions and programmes

• Progressive overload

• Variety

• Specificity

• Intensity