Soc6: Thresholds Of Training

Question 1

What is rest?

Answer 1

The period of time allocated to recover.

Question 2

What is recovery?

Answer 2

The time required to repair the body caused by training or competition.

Question 3

What is adaptation?

Answer 3

When your body reacts to a hard training session by increasing its ability to cope with future punishing training sessions.

Question 4

What is overtraining?

Answer 4

This happens when you train beyond your body’s ability to recover.

Question 5

What is reversibility?

Answer 5

When you lose fitness levels when you are injured or ill.

Question 6

What are the two ways to find out your training threshold?

Answer 6

1) calculating your aerobic target zone.

2) karvonen formula

Question 7

How do you do the karvonen formula?

Answer 7

MHR=220 - your age
Resting heart rate (RHR)= wrist/neck and count for 1 minute (pulse).
HRR x training % + RHR = target heart rate

Question 8

What are the limits for aerobic training?

Answer 8

60%-80% of your MHR (maximum heart rate).

Question 9

What are the limits for anaerobic training?

Answer 9

80%-90% of your MHR.

Question 10

How do you find your aerobic target zone?

Answer 10

60%= (60 x MHR) divided by 100
80%= (80 x MHR) divided by 100