prelims Flashcards
_______ refers to physical activity or performing some physical work on
a repetitive basis to relax your body and take away out all the mental stress.
Exercise
The ________ outline the criteria that guide all training
exercise principles
Principles of Exercise
Individuality
Specificity
Progression
Overload
Adaptation
Recovery
Reversibility
Everyone is different and responds differently to training. Some people can handle higher
volumes of training while others may respond better to higher intensities.
Individuality
Under the individuality principle, combination factors like _____, _______, _______, _____ or _______, and _______ are the basis of individuality.
genetic ability, predominance of muscle fiber types, other factors in your life, chronological or athletic age, and mental state.
Improving your ability in a sport is very specific. If you want to be a great pitcher, running laps will help your overall conditioning but won’t develop your skills at throwing or the power and muscular endurance required to throw a fastball fifty times in a game. Swimming will help
improve your aerobic endurance but won’t develop tissue resiliency and muscular endurance for your running legs.
Specificity
To reach the roof of your ability, you must climb the first flight of stairs before you can exit the 20th floor and stare out over the landscape. You can view this from both a technical skills standpoint as well as from an effort/distance standpoint. To swim the 500 freestyle, you need to be able to maintain your body position and breathing pattern well enough to complete the distance. To swim the 500 freestyle, you also need to build your muscular endurance well enough to repeat the necessary motions enough times to finish.
Progression
To increase strength and endurance, you need to add new resistance or time/intensity to your efforts. This principle works in concert with progression. To run a 10-kilometer race, athletes need to build up distance over repeated sessions in a reasonable manner in order to improve muscle adaptation as well as improve soft tissue strength/resiliency. Any demanding exercise attempted too soon risks injury. The same principle holds true for strength and power exercises.
Overload
Over time the body becomes accustomed to exercising at a given level. This _____ results in improved efficiency, less effort, and less muscle breakdown at that level. That is why the first time you ran two miles you were sore after, but now it is just a warm-up for your main workout. Therefore, you need to change the stimulus via higher intensity or longer duration in order to continue improvements. The same holds true for adapting to lesser amounts of exercise.
adaptation
The body cannot repair itself without rest and time to recover. Both short periods like hours
between multiple sessions in a day and longer periods like days or weeks to recover from a long season are necessary to ensure your body does not suffer from exhaustion or overuse injuries. Motivated athletes often neglect this. At the basic level, the more you train the more sleep your body needs, despite the adaptations you have made to said training.
Recovery
If you discontinue application of a particular exercise like running five miles or bench pressing 150 pounds 10 times, you will lose the ability to successfully complete that exercise. Your muscles will atrophy and the cellular adaptations like increased capillaries (blood flow to the muscles) and mitochondria density will reverse. You can slow this rate of loss substantially by conducting a maintenance/reduced program of training during periods where life gets in the
way and is why just about all sports coaches ask their athletes to stay active in the offseason.
Reversibility
The _________ describes how to safely apply the principles of overload and
progression.
FITT Principle
FITT Principles
Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type (Specificity)
is how often a person performs the targeted health-related physical activity
Frequency
For each component of health-related fitness, a safe frequency is ____________.
three to five times a week
is how hard a person exercises during a physical activity period.
Intensity
can be measured in different ways, depending on the related health-related component.
Intensity
is the length of the physical activity (how long)
Time
_____ varies depending on the health-related fitness component targeted. . For example, flexibility or stretching may take 10-30 seconds for each stretch, while the minimum time for performing aerobic activity is 20 minutes of continuous activity.
Time
refers to the specific physical activity chosen to improve a component of health-related fitness (what kind)
Type or Specificity
Parts of Exercises (Phases)
Warm-Up
Exercise Proper/Workout
Cool Down
The purpose is to stretch the muscles of the body, thus avoiding possible muscle injury.
It also heats up the body, giving a slight increase in the heart rate (pulse) in preparation for the vigorous working phase.
Warm-Up