principles of training

• why do we train?

  • to get better at something
  • improves our ability to perform skills at a consistently high standard throughout a game or event
  • promotes physical changes that help make us more effective and efficient
  • training is best when it is carefully planned and considered
• Specificity

  Progression

  Overload

  Reversibility

  Tedium
• specificity

  has to be specific to what we are trying to train
• progression

  gets harder to continue to push and challenge body so we progress
• overload

  making sure whatever we do is a little too hard- to gain and adapt to it
• reversibility

  if you get injured or stop training, fitness will deteriorate
• tedium

  enjoyable, interesting, motivating