The use of the six principles of training by a 100m sprinter would greatly improve the athlete’s performance. This is because the progressive overload, specificity, reversibility, variety, training thresholds and warm up/cool down principles all greatly affect the performance of any athlete. The principles of training can be employed in order to improve all aspects of fitness, from flexibility to strength and aerobic endurance. The progressive overload principle implies that improvements in fitness only occur when the ‘load’ is progressively increased as the body adapts. The progressive overload principle is exemplified in strength training, which is necessary to improve the performance of a 100m sprinter. For example, say the sprinter were to begin with a 30 kg weight. It puts just enough stress on the muscles, without causing excessive fatigue or injury. After a while of training with this load, however, the body adapts to the weight, and the muscles are no longer under stress. It is at this point that extra weight should be added, or no more strength gains will be made. If utilizing the progressive overload principle a 100m sprinter would make gains in fitness. These gains are not limited to strength gains, but can also apply to gains in all other aspects of fitness. The second principle of training is reversibility. Reversibility, when kept in mind, can be used to improve the performance of any athlete, including a 100m sprinter. If, after progressively increasing the weight that the sprinter from the previous example was lifting, he were to stop training all together, the effects of this training would gradually be reversed. In order to improve the performance of the 100m sprinter he must always remember the reversibility ... ... middle of paper ... ...boredom, and monotony. The fifth principle of training is that of thresholds. By incorporating training thresholds into the training of a 100m sprinter the athlete’s performance in an event will be improved. Training thresholds are the lowest intensity at which an athlete can work and still made some fitness gains. For example, a 100m sprinter would be looking to make gains anaerobically. In order to do this they need to work above their anaerobic threshold. This threshold might be at 80% of their maximum heart rate; therefore anywhere above this intensity anaerobic gains would be made. How far past their threshold the athlete trains, is proportional to the gains in anaerobic fitness that will be made for the 100m sprinter. The improvement in fitness, as a result of threshold training, that a 100m sprinter would experience would improve their performance in a race.
The higher a person’s VO2max, the longer they can sustain endurance events at higher training intensities. Conclusively, the experiment proved that the trained participant had a higher VO2max (higher oxygen consumption) and was indeed more fit than that of the untrained participant.
The 110m hurdles is a race that requires exactness. The runner must have solid technique in each aspect of the race including the start, stride length and rhythm developed in the race. The start of the race is explosive because every moment in a short race is tremendously important. The hurdler’s steps throughout the race are calculated; an exact number of stri...
There are different types of muscle because each sport has various needs. “Power endurance is typically characterized by intense, repeated efforts for a relatively short period of time (less than 30 seconds)”(1). Sports such as sprinters, wrestlers, fencers and tennis players need to produce powerful movements and repeat them with several times with little to no rest. This training involves lifting about 15-30 reputations of moderate loads, about 50%-70% 1RM per lift.
Cross-country running, a sport that requires the fusing of body and mind, strives to maximize your physical ability by testing your mental tenacity. Everyday represents a new struggle to beat yesterday's maximum output, an issue of mind over matter. I have known the agony of this conflict since I joined the newly established cross-country team. As convincing as my morning doubts are, I do not heed them. Through pains and sprains and through adverse weather and unfavorable conditions, I run because I made up my mind three years ago to succeed.
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As stated in the second paragraph, our genes determine both our baseline athletic ability and also our rate of improvement. According to the New York Times, “After months of identical training, some exercisers make almost no fitness gains, while others increase their aerobic capacities by 50 percent or more” (Aschwanden). Some people may argue that although our baseline abilities may be different, training will help us all improve our athleticism. However, although this is the case, there is much more to be considered. Although training will improve one’s athletic abilities, we cannot control the speed at which we improve compared to others, the amount of effort needed to achieve the same results as well as the ceiling in which we can no longer improve.
of physical fitness as a whole. It is not enough to periods between your workouts.
The second thing a coach has to do is assess the athlete. Then they need to find out what type of runner the athlete is. That way they can design a workout program that will prove to be the most effective with that person. Every athlete i...
Pressure is placed on athletes to perform better. The fierce competitive nature of the real sports world in with the peoples excellence has caused athletes to seek alternative means to ...
I signed up to run track in the spring and went to summer conditioning for cross country. That’s when my coaches, teammates, and myself noticed that my running has improved significantly from when I first started. I knew that I had to work hard my senior year to achieve my goals for running. Running is a mental sport. The workouts I had to do were brutally painful and I had stay positive throughout the run because I know the training I had to do will help me during a race.
The job of professional athletes requires additional physical work to maintain their body so they can play at the highest level possible. Professional athletes us...
This workout will assist with people’s everyday life by augmenting muscular endurance. An elevated muscular endurance will be less prone to muscle strains and tears because of the resistance they have developed, extended workout times, and a better stamina from the repetitions of lifting weights (“Benefits of Muscular Endurance”). Everyday life will be eased as it is easier to lift heavy items; the exercise overloads your muscles which challenges them so that they must adapt and therefore get stronger to meet the challenge of lifting those more hefty items. "To make a muscle grow, you must force it to go beyond its capabilities. The most potent way to apply that force is to train to failure. Training to failure means...the muscles are forced to grow stronger and bigger," says Nasser El Sonbaty who has body built for many years. With this easier way of doing things, people can get daily chores and activities done more quickly and efficiently which will also decrease stress levels tha...
Creative new training methods, developed by coaches, athletes and sport scientists, are aimed to help improve the quality and quantity of athletic training ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1). However, these methods have encountered a consistent set of barriers including overtraining ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1). Due to these barriers, the need for physical and mental recovery in athletics brought an increasing attention in practice and in research ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1).
What is Biomechanics? It is the study of forces and their effects on the living system (McGinnis, 2013). In this essay, I will be looking at the biomechanics of running. Running, as well as any other sport requires skills for which advancement is due to consistent deliberate practice and effective development. However, runners should establish a training system that actively builds their original running pattern instead of basing it on what works well for others. Understanding the biomechanics of running gives a better knowledge of their running techniques and points out areas of concerns that require improvement. Despite the fact that running is dependent on the interaction of the whole body, breaking down the running pace into single components allows us to further understand how minor changes can increase improve performance and decrease injury risk.
Any progress in physical fitness can help boost your capacity when working as well as the ability to respond effectively in an emergency situation.