Training Principles

List the training principles you can remember.

Process of replicating the characteristics of physical activity in training to ensure it benefits performance.

• Individuality

• Specificity

• Diminishing returns

• Progression

To correctly apply the training principle of frequency, how many times (minimum) would you need to train per week to see improvement?

• 2

• 4

• 3

• 5

Providing different activities, formats and drills in training, while still addressing the aims of the training program.

• Variety

• Individuality

• Specificity

• Overtraining

Can refer to: the length of the training session, the length of the training program and the length of a bout of exercise.

• Specificity

• Time

• Frequency

• Intensity

A planned increase in training stimulus to cause a positive chronic adaptation.

• Overtraining

• Diminishing returns

• Intensity

• Progression

Suggests the rate of fitness gains diminishes over time as individuals approach their genetic potential.

• Individuality

• Detraining

• Diminishing returns

• Overtraining

Fitness gains can be maintained by:

• Training once a week

• Training twice a week

• Training three times a week

• Doing 10 minute training sessions each day

Suggests that everyone responds differently to training.

• Type

• Diminishing returns

• Variety

• Individuality

Refers to an athlete’s loss of fitness when they have a reduction in their training; or they cease training.

• Detraining

• Diminishing returns

• Intensity

• Progression