2.3 - Principles of Training
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Practice Questions
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What is the principle of progressive overload?
💡 Hint: Think about how athletes get stronger over time.
Define specificity in training.
💡 Hint: Consider how a training program should relate to the sport.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What principle states that improvements will be lost if training stops?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when an athlete takes a break.
True or False: Specificity means that adaptations will be identical across all training modalities.
💡 Hint: Consider how different sports require different training.
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Challenge Problems
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Create a detailed training program for a sport of your choice over 12 weeks, incorporating principles of overload, specificity, reversibility, and variation. Explain each phase.
💡 Hint: Think about the final goal for the athlete and how the training phases can align with it.
Evaluate the impact of not following the principle of variation in training. Illustrate using an example.
💡 Hint: Consider how training the same way every day could influence progress.
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