PRINCIPLES FOR LIFE Principles of Training
Mar 31, 2015
PRINCIPLES FOR LIFE
Principles of Training
Organization, Focus, and Attentiveness
“You will only get out of training what you put into it.”
Or
“You will only get out of life what you put into it.”
Please select a Team.
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1. Lions2. Tigers3. Panthers4. Cheetahs5. Kittens
The amount of overload needed depends on? Pick the most correct answer.
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1. The right equipment
2. Genetics3. The individual4. The time of the
week you exercise5. What exercises
you are doing
Principle of Overload
It is when you are placing greater demands on the system you want to improve.
Which is not a variable of Overload?
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1. Intensity2. Time3. Frequency4. Specificity
3 variables of Overload (Frequency)
How often you exercise in a week. These radio waves represent how many times you
exercise during the week.
3 variables of Overload (Intensity)
How hard you exercise. The load for the donkey is too much!
3 variables of Overload (Time)
How long you exercise. In the marathon, enormous amounts of energy is expended because of time.
When you increase the workload of your training session, you are increasing…
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1. Frequency2. Intensity3. Time4. specificity
When you increase the length of your workout, you are increasing…
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1. Frequency2. Intensity3. Specificity4. Time
Team Scores
40 Tigers
37.14 Lions
34 Cheetahs
33.33 Panthers
22.5 Kittens
Frequency refers to how…
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1. fast you exercise
2. hard you exercise
3. long you exercise
4. often you exercise
Example of too much frequency
The danger of injury increase with increased frequency. The fitness gains actually decrease
(Blue), while injury increases because of workout density.
When you lift weights to get stronger, this is an example of…
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1. Specificity2. Frequency3. Intensity4. Time
The principle of Specificity
Specific exercises that improve specific components of fitness. You get better at the
things you train for.
Progression means
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1. Changing from running to tennis
2. Slowly increasing the amount of exercise
3. Starting easy and going for a long period of time
4. Starting fast to improve quickly
The body’s response to stress. We only progress when we can recover from stress.
Teenagers that score below a particular fitness standard may need to…
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1. Decrease the length of time of their exercise sessions
2. Increase the intensity of their workouts
3. Increase the overload to the maximum
4. Both 2 and 3 are correct
Team Scores
68 Tigers
67.14 Lions
64.67 Panthers
56 Cheetahs
40 Kittens
Participant Scores
80 Participant DDC69
80 Participant DE176
80 Participant DDDED
70 Participant E0032
70 Participant DE24A