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Specificity, Progression And Overload Principle

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The use of the Specificity, Progression and Overload principle, as well as the F.I.T.T. principle, is very important when training. To implement the Specificity principle during my days in the cardio room, I defined my goals before starting my workouts. It is important to define one’s goals so that one is sure to work towards and meet the given goals. My cardio goal was high intensity and my strength goal was toning. In order to work towards these goals, I constructed workouts that would help tone muscles and encourage high intensity cardio performance. To achieve high intensity cardio exercises, I aimed to and succeeded in to keeping my heart rate above 150. Focusing on the toning goal of my strength training exercises, I used activities …show more content…

By doing so, I increased the demands of the leg extension, abdominal machine, lat pulldown machine, shoulder press, and squats with workout bar exercises. On March 24, I did two sets of fifteen reps. The next day, March 28, I did three set of fifteen reps with the same weight. On March 30, I did two sets of fifteen reps with increased weight. Then, on April 3, I did three sets of fifteen reps with the same weight as the previous day (March 30). Concerning my cardio exercises, I implemented the Progression principle by running greater distances between the second and third day and the fourth and fifth day. By doing so, I placed greater demands on my body through use of the Progression principle. To make use of the Overload principle, I knew that I needed to increase the weight used in my exercises. In this way, I increased the weight of all my strength activities between the second and third day, as well as between the fourth and fifth day. Increasing the amount of weight used in these exercises promoted a toned body, due to the nature of the Overload principle. Also, when it came to my cardio activities, I made sure to increase my heart rate, specifically between the first and second day and third and fourth …show more content…

principle stands for Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type. Frequency refers to how often a person participates in a given activity. While the cardio schedule allowed us to workout every other school day, weekends interfered with this schedule. Overall, the frequency of this workout was based on a two-day cycle. Also, I increased the frequency by increasing the numbers of sets I completed for each workout every other week. By adding more sets, I participated in the activity during a greater length of time and therefore increased the frequency. Intensity refers to the weight or incline of a workout, how hard one has to work during a given exercise. To make use of the Intensity principle, I increased the weight of each strength training activity during every other day. In terms of the cardio training exercises, between the first and second day as well as the third and fourth day, I focused on increasing my heart rate. Between the second and third day and fourth and fifth day, I increased the intensity of the exercises by running a further distance than I had the day before. The first T in F.I.T.T. stands for Time. To increase the time of my strength training exercises, I increased the number of sets I completed between day one and two and day three and four. With a greater number of sets, a longer amount of time was spent on the given exercise. Also, during each day in the cardio room I learned how to better manage my time and use it to the best of my ability,

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