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What is training?

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The systematic repeated performance of structured exercise sessions over a period of time - duration, frequency, intensity, goal-orientated

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What is overtraining?

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When an athlete attempts to do more training than he or she is able to physically and/or mentally tolerate. Overtraining results in a number of symptoms that are highly individualised. Training too high or too often for a prolonged period of time.

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What is overreaching?

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A transient overtraining, pushing the body beyond it’s limits for a short period of time to stimulate a training response

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How could you tell if someone is suffering from overtraining syndrome (OTS)?

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  • Mood swings
  • Elevated morning RHR
  • Struggling with training and performance
  • Loss of appetite
  • Muscle soreness
  • Lack of focus
  • Frequent colds and infections
  • Persistent fatigue
  • Sleep issues
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Possible indicators of overtraining

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  • Changes to resting heart rate
  • Chronic muscle soreness
  • Reduced immune and frequent upper-respiratory tract infections (coughs and colds)
  • Sleep disturbance
  • Fatigue
  • Decreased appetite
  • Sudden and unexplained decrease in performance
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What is periodisation?

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Periodisation involves the breakdown of the athletic year into: transition phase (post-season), preparation phase (pre-season), competition phase

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What is macrocycle?

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The name of the athlete’s training programme for an entire year or season. “Bird’s eye” view of the entire year, includes all of the year’s phases.

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What is mesocycle?

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A block of training composed of several week-long microcycles. A specific block of training. Each phase could contain a number of mesocycles (mesocycles are made up of microcycles).

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What is a microcycle?

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A weekly training programme. Weekly schedule of all training for a given week. Work towards the athletes specific training goal in a particular phase.

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How does increasing intensity, duration, over-reaching, and overtraining work?

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Undertraining - minor physiological changes, no change in performance
Acute overload - positive physiological adaptations, minor changes in performance
(acute and over-reaching zone of optimal performance and enhancements in competition and training)
Over-reaching - optimal physiological adaptations and performance
Overtraining - bad physiological changes, performance issues

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What is flexibility training?

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Systematic stretching of muscles, tendons, and connective tissue, improve range of motion

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What are the different types of flexibility training?

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  1. Static stretching
  2. Active stretching
  3. Dynamic stretching
  4. Ballistic stretching
  5. Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF)
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What is static stretching?

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Mild discomfort, hold position

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What is active stretching?

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Held statically via contraction of opposing muscles, ex. standing quad stretch

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What is dynamic stretching?

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Movement is controlled, repeated with gradual increase in speed and reach

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What is ballistic stretching?

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Repeated bouncing at the peak of stretch, discouraged due to increase risk of injury

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What is proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation stretching (PNF)?

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Combo of passive and isometric stretching
Begin with static stretch, follow isometric contraction (10 seconds), relax, finish with static stretch

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What are the different methods of training?

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  1. Flexibility training
  2. Strength and resistance training
  3. Circuit training
  4. Interval training
  5. Plyometrics
  6. Continuous training
  7. Fartlek training
  8. Cross training
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What is strength and resistance training?

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Resistance against muscle contraction to increase size, strength, and power of skeletal muscle

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What can resistance be?

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Gravity, body weight, rubber bands, weight machines, free weights

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What are the benefits of strength and resistance training?

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Improved strength of muscle, tendon, and ligaments, improved joint strength, injury reduction, improved neuromuscular and cardiovascular function

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What is circuit training?

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Combines strength and resistance training with aerobic cardiovascular exercise
Exercises completed in a set amount of time or set numbers of reps
Each exercise followed by only a short recovery

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What is interval training?

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Involves bouts of high/maximal intensity work interspersed with low intensity recovery exercise, used with many different cardiovascular exercise

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What does HIIT stand for?

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High-Intensity Interval Training - burn calories, increase strength and explosion

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What does LISS stand for?

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Low Intensity Sustained State - rest and recovery

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What is plyometrics training?

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Made up of extremely fast, short, powerful movements - used to increase speed and force of muscle contractions, used mainly in activities that require explosive and forceful moves - involves rapid stretching of muscle followed by a forceful shortening of the same muscle

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What is continuous training?

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Involves periods of exercise completed without rest, intensity of the exercise will usually determine the length of the session, completed at minimum threshold intensity to ensure aerobic adaptations

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What is fartlek training?

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Fartlek is Swedish for “speed play”, involves a combination of interval and continuous training, is not regulated by durations, intensities or rest periods but by how and athlete feels

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What is cross-training?

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Involves using different training techniques with the goal of improving overall performance, make use of some or all training methods

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What are the two kinds of OTS?

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Sympathetic - affects short duration, explosive sport athletes (fight or flight)
Parasympathetic - affects endurance, low intensity athletes (rest and digest)

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What is periodisation?

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Involves the breakdown of the athletic year into:
1. Transition phase (post-season)
2. Preparation phase (pre-season)
3. Competition phase

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When is periodisation used?

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Short and long term goals ex. olympics, bodybuilding contests, marathons

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What is the main idea behind periodisation?

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There’s a balancing and manipulation of a person’s training in terms of volume/load and the intensity of the training being done.

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What are the three periodisation stages?

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Macrocycle - “birds eye” view of the entire year, includes all of the year’s phases
Mesocycle - a specific block of training, a mesocycle is made up of microcycles
Microcycle - weekly schedule of all training for a given week

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