Principles Of Training Flashcards
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Individual Needs
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Individual needs training is training for the athlete for their needs. If I was a marathon runner I’d need to train differently from a sprinter.
2
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Specificity
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Specifcity means the matching training to the requirements of an activity. Every sport has its own specific needs; divers and long distance runners obviously train in different ways.
3
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Progressive Overload
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Progressive overload is when you gradually increase the amount of overload to improve fitness
4
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FITT
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Frequency, Intensity, Time and Type
5
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Overtraining
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Training beyond your body’s ability to recover.
6
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Reversibility
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Gradually losing fitness instead of progressing or remaining at the current
level
