FORM 2: PRINCIPLES OF TRAINING

The number of times you exercise each week.

• Time

• Training Schedule

• Intensity

• Frequency

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

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.

• Tedium

• 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

Overload means what?

• That you are doing too much.
• Basically this means working harder than you would normally do
• You are not working hard enough
• You could do more