Principles of Sports Training

What is specificity?

• Eating specific foods and staying on a particular diet that is required by the sport or the activity that is being undertaken by the individual

• Repetition of specific actions that will help later on in performing it well

• Specific training methods for an individual based on their needs to help them perform better at a task

What is progression?

• Doing different motions in a progressive manner

• The process of increasing physical performance by increasing the intensity of exercise gradually

• Doing PACER test for aerobic respiration and endurance testing

What is the overload principle?

• To do so much work that it overloads your body completely

• Eating lots of food after doing an overload of work to make up for nutrition loss

• For adaptations to occur in the body, there needs to be an external stimulus that is more than what the body is normally accustomed to

What is adaptation?

• The process whereby changes are made to the human body due to taking rest

• The process by which the human body adapts to its surroundings in changing weather

• The process by which an individual's body gets accustomed to certain intensities of training and makes changes accordingly, increasing efficiency of the task

What is the principle of reversibility?

• The principle states that a ray can trace its path back

• The principle states that every action done in a sport is reversible in nature

• The principle states that if a training stimulus is removed or reduced, the efficiency of the body and muscle strength, etc. will decrease

What is the principle of variance?

• Doing a variety of things unrelated to sports can help in sports

• To make major changes to a training program to help yield better performance

• To make

  minor changes in a training program to help yield better performance

Which of these is NOT a principle of active participation?

• The athlete should participate in planning their training regime

• The athlete should put in effort during training sessions

• The athlete should not train in the absence of a coach

• The coach must communicate training info to the trainee

What is periodization?

• Periodization is the systematic planning of athletic or physical training that aims to reach the best possible performance in the most important competition of the year by the cycling of various aspects of a training program

• Taking long breaks between multiple sessions of training or exercise to make up for the rest and recovery time that was lost while the sessions were taking place

• Taking short breaks between exercises

What is individuality?

• Being alone by yourself

• Individuality is what causes everyone to respond differently to different training stimuli and have different training programs based on what is suited best for the individual

• The process of maturing and realizing one's individuality, causing people to make life-altering decisions that may or may not affect them positively in the given circumstance 

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