Lecture 2 Flashcards
What are the components of Training and Training Load?
FITT- Frequency, Intensity, Time and Type
What two components make up training volume?
Frequency and Time
What are the 3 different ways stress can classified and help indicate if it will lead to adaptation or maladaptation?
Underload
Overload
Over Exercise
What is underload? When is it okay to have?
UL- training is below a certain threshold and doesn’t induce fatigue and therefore doesn’t induce the resistance phase. It is okay for programs of periodisation to prevent over exercise.
What is overload? How can one describe the relationship?
Overload is what you want. It induces adaptation to increase physiological function and performance. This can be described as a linear relationship. The more dose/training, the greater adaptation/ response.
What is Over Exercise? List some examples of maladaptation.
Training load is too high that it elicits the exhaustion phase. Some maladaptations include: injury, decreased immune function, chronic sickness, cardiac issues (SSE) and decreased performance.
What is habituation? Is it always a bad thing?
Habituation is the process of adapting to the current training load. It is not always a bad thing because it means you’re body has improved its function in response to stress but you don’t want to stay in this phase because you won’t get better.
What is important to remember with the (linear) relationship between amount of training and the effect/adaptation.
There is a level of saturation, there will be a point where you can no longer adapt further.
What is the Asymptote?
The point at which there is not an effect or further adaptations. This is the point at which you get to the exhaustive phase and would be overtraining.
Is the training load always the same?
No it was intra variable and intervariability.
What can affect an athlete’s response to a training load on any give day?
Fitness Level
Immune Function
Mental Health
Nutritional Status.
What two important discoveries came from the 1931 study by Christensen.
1) Habituation took about 2 to 3 weeks.
2) To elicit adaptations the most important thing to change on a regular basis is intensity.
Who may have been the first fitness practitioner?
Milo of Crete (circa 600 BC).
What is training progression?
The relationship between the current training load and adaptation/ habituation.
What is the relationship between fitness level and fitness gain?
It’s an inverse relationship. The fitter you are, the less of a gain you get as you increase training load especially as you get close to your genetic ceiling. Fitter = rate of improvement slows down.
