Training Program Principles - Part 4 Flashcards
What does the Maintenance principle refer to?
Less training frequency to maintain physiological gains
How many training sessions are required to maintain gains?
2 a week
When might athletes move to a maintenance program?
- When wanted fitness level is reached and time needs to be spent elsewhere
- At the end of a season
What does overtraining principle refer to?
The cumulative exhaustion that persists due to not enough recovery time
How does overtraining occur?
When athlete does not allow enough time for recovery
What are the potential negative impacts of overtraining
- Long term decrease in performance
- Impaired ability to train
What are chronic adaptations?
Long term physiological changes in the body due to exercise and training
When are positive chronic adaptations developed?
During sufficient rest after training
Not during training
What characteristic should training programs have to avoid overtraining?
Flexibility to adjust loads if performer does not receive sufficient rest/recovery
What are some of the many symptoms of overtraining?
There are like a 100 give a few
- Persistent sore and stiff muscles
- Persistent fatigue
- Decrease in performance and ability to maintain training programs
- Increased susceptibility to illness
- Nagging injuries
- Sleep disturbances
- DEPRESSION
How does a person monitor for overtraining?
Through having a training log with quantatative data that monitors trends
What are the two signs in training logs that can suggest overtraining
- Decrease in performance or psychological state
- Increase in resting heart rate (about over 10 bpm more)
What does Detraining principle refer to?
The termination (stopping) of training and the resulting return of pre-training levels
What is another name for the effects of detraining?
Reversability
Detraining leads to reversibility
What happens to the positive chronic adaptations in detraining?
They are lost and return to pre-exercise levels
