Personal Training Flashcards
Progression
You should progressively increase the overload overtime
Overload
Work the muscle until you feel as if it is being challenged
Specificity
In order to have specific outcomes, training must be specific to those outcomes.
Differences
Everyone has different abilities. Age, gender, ability to recover, health, fitness levels, can all change your ability to perform
Reversibility
When you stop your regular routine. Your metabolism goes down, you lose muscle mass, etc.
Diminishing return
When you reach a point where you do not improve anymore. Some may use illegal substances or practices to improve their performance. Example, blood doping or steroids. Others may change their trainer, or train differently
Overtraining
Excess training or too high of an intensity of training, resulting in injury, fatigue, etc. (mentally or physically)