FITT Flashcards
How often you work out?
Frequency
how hard you work out?
intensity
how long you work out?
time
what you are working out?
type
Light workout before that I creases your heart rate for main workout
warm up
move muscles/joints in a full ROM
Stretching
moderate-vigorous activity (60-85% MHR)
exercise
light/moderate exercise at the end of a work out
cool down
adding weight/intensity gradually to your workout over a period of time to a achieve a higher level of fitness
Progression
intensity of a workout about above your level of fitness done in order to achieve a higher level of fitness over a period of time
overload
period of time between workout days when you don’t workout and your body builds and repairs muscle
rest and recovery
performing an exercise or skill to become better at that exercise or skill
specificity
if you continue to dot the same workout/exercise you will stop gaining a higher level of fitness
diminishing returns
training stops and effects of the exercise is lost and physical fitness declines
reversibility