Training Principles Flashcards
Individualization
Modifying ones program to accommodate their needs/goals.
All-around development
Fitting in all components of fitness into your routine: Strength, Flexibility, and Endurance
Reversibility
Once someone stops training, their body will gradually return to it’s pre training state.
Specificity
Adding specific exercises to ones program go improve their performance in their specific goals. Ex) Sports
Progressive overload
Continuously gradually increase workout intensities so client does not plateau.
Structural tolerance
To strengthen the ligaments and tendons in order to have the ability to handle greater stresses in training, and make it harder to get injured.
Maintenance
One who has achieved a certain level of fitness can be maintain with less work then was needed to attain it.
Recovery
Allowing the muscles to have enough time to recover to ensure the performance doesn’t decline.
FITT
Designing a program with frequency, intensity, type, and time.