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Cards (28)

  • Frequency
    How often you will exercise
  • Cardio frequency
    • Minimum of three cardio sessions per week
  • Strength training frequency
    • Recommended to do some sort of strength training three to four times per week
  • Intensity
    The amount of effort or work that must be completed in a specific exercise
  • Time
    How long each individual session should last
  • Recommended exercise time
    • At least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise or at least 75 minutes of high-intensity exercise a week
  • Type
    What type of exercise will you be doing
  • Cardio exercises
    • Running
    • Swimming
    • Walking
    • Dancing
    • Aerobics routines
    • Cycling
  • Strength training exercises
    • Squats
    • Pushups
    • Pullups
    • Sit ups
  • Benefits of FITT
    • Good for busting through plateaus
    • Great for alleviating boredom
    • Can be used by all fitness levels
  • Principle of Overload
    A greater than normal stress or load on the body is required for training adaptation to take place
  • Principle of Progression
    The body should experience a gradual increase in workload
  • Principle of Specificity
    Sports training should be relevant and appropriate to the sport for which the individual is training in order to produce a training effect
  • Principle of Individuality
    No two persons are the same and their rate of adoption to the same workout differs
  • Principle of Reversibility
    Adaptation that takes place as a result of training will be reversed when you stop training
  • Core muscles
    • Abdominals
    • Obliques
    • Back
    • Pelvic floor
    • Spine
    • Glutes
    • Diaphragm
  • Abdominals
    • Helps stabilize the internal organs
  • Obliques
    • Located along the sides of the body, plays a role in spinal protection and rotation
  • Back
    • The quadratus lumborum is a deep abdominal muscle located in the lower back, extends from the lowest rib to the top of the pelvis
  • Pelvic floor
    • Houses organs such as the urethra, bladder, intestines, rectum, uterus, cervix, and vagina
  • Spine
    • The erector spinae and multifidus muscles are technically back muscles
  • Glutes
    • A group of three muscles in your backside that influence hip rotation and extension
  • Diaphragm
    • A muscle typically associated with breathing, as it contracts and flattens during inhalation and exhalation
  • Importance of a strong core

    • Helps you balance, allows you to sit or stand with perfect posture, and improves your form in most exercises
  • Benefits of a strong core
    • Balance and stability
    • Prevent back pain and poor posture
    • Improve weight-lifting
  • Abdominal bracing
    Strengthens your core, protects your back from injury, and gives you more power
  • Plyometrics
    Mainly a power exercise, about performing explosive moments at max effort, also good for challenging your strength
  • Plyometric exercises
    • Pop Squat
    • Split Squat Jump
    • Alternating Lunge Jump
    • Reverse Lunge to Knee-Up Jump
    • Tuck Jump
    • Jump Squat with Heel Tap
    • Skater Hop
    • Burpee
    • Box Jump
    • Crab Walk to Jump
    • Single-leg Deadlift to Jump
    • Lateral Lunge to Single Hop
    • Hands-Release Push-up
    • Broad Jump to Burpee
    • Burpee into a tuck jump