Training Principles & Components of Balanced Exercise Programs

What does training mean in the context of sport?

• Participating in competitions to win medals

• Engaging in activities that improve performance and/or fitness

• Watching and analyzing sports games

• Buying sports equipment and apparel

Which principle of training suggests that training should be relevant and appropriate to the sport for which the individual is training?

• Overload

• Specificity

• Reversibility

• Variation

What principle of training indicates that performance gains are lost when you stop training?

• Variation

• Overload

• Specificity

• Reversibility

Which principle of training involves gradually increasing the amount of exercise to improve fitness?

• Specificity

• Variation

• Overload

• Reversibility

What principle of training emphasizes the need to regularly change the training routine to avoid boredom and plateau?

• Reversibility

• Specificity

• Overload

• Variation

What does the principle of specificity in fitness refer to?

• The need for a variety of exercises to improve overall health

• The observation that fitness improves through training movement patterns and intensities of a specific task and fitness type

• The idea that mental strength is more important than physical training

• The concept that longer training sessions always lead to better performance

According to the concept of specificity, training should be directed at improving what?

• The most popular trends in fitness and performance

• The fitness/performance of a sport's distinct key components

• General activities that are not related to the sport

• Only the mental aspects of athletic performance

What type of adaptations should incorporating specific tasks of a sport induce according to the specificity principle?

• Cardiovascular and respiratory adaptations only

• Neuromuscular and metabolic adaptations

• Cognitive and psychological adaptations

• Flexibility and balance improvements only

Which example best illustrates the principle of specificity in training athletes?

• Power athletes training for flexibility by doing yoga

• Endurance athletes improving their skills by playing chess

• Swimmers should swim to train and team sports athletes require training with a combination of fitness types and sport-specific movements/skills

• All athletes following the same general fitness program

What is the description of Overload as per the learning material?

• The reduction of tissues to less than normal training stress

• The exposure of tissues to greater than accustomed-to training stress

• The maintenance of tissues at the same level of training stress

• The complete removal of training stress from tissues