Principles of Fitness Flashcards
Define Progressive Overload
It is when there is a gradual increase in work put on the body when training.
This may be increasing the intensity of your exercise or how many times a week you train. With the goal of improving your fitness, strength etc using Progressive Overload.
Define Specifity
It is training to your sport and making sure you are training the right areas of your body.
A long distance runner should have specificity in their training and do continuous training rather than Pylometrics which wouldn’t be beneficial for them. Not being specific may lead to an athlete wasting time or potentially damaging themselves by training the wrong body parts and losing their fitness gains or becoming injured.
Define Individual Needs
It is the factors an athlete has to consider when training and these factors might be.
- Gender
- Experience
- Fitness levels
- Attitude towards sport
- Their goals and why they are partaking in their sport
Define Reversibility
When you train in a sport and make fitness gains and if you are injured or stop exercising for any reason, will your fitness gains be lost such as muscle loss and your cardiovascular strength may diminish.
Define Type of Training
It is the type of training that is right for the sport you are taking part in. A marathon runner would benefit from doing continuous training but not weight training as they want to be as light as possible.
Training in a way that is right for your sport and taking into account the other things such as overtraining, progressive overload and the other principles of fitness.
Define Frequency
How many times you do a training session within a certain time period. Such as doing continuous training four times a week.
Define Time
Literally how long you train for during a training session such as sixty minutes or half an hour of weight or circuit training.
Define Intensity
How hard you train during a training session. This is an important determining factor for the levels of fitness improvements that can be made and the rate at which your muscular endurance or cardiovascular strength will improve.
What is the purpose of using the FITT Principle during training?
To make the most efficient and best possible fitness improvements to your body in the shortest space of time possible.
How might Progressive Overload be incorporated into training regarding the FITT Principle’s?
A runner training for a marathon might increase the time in which he trains and the distance he runs to mimic the fatigue and time he will have to run for during the marathon.
This will leave his body better adapted to running for this long and ensuring his body won’t fatigue which will improve his overall performance in the race leaving him better suited for this type of cardiovascular exercise and racing.
