Questions and Answers Verified
Solutions Latest Update
(2026/2027)
Question:
PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF RESISTANCE TRAINING
Answer:
GH release
-Improve FFM
-Blood lactate threshold
-Improved function
-Stronger skeletal system
-CV function
-Protection
-Neural adaptation
Question:
PRINCIPLES OF WRT
Answer:
Accommodation
-Specificity
-Reversibility
-Adaptation
-Overload
-Super compensation
,-Recovery
Question:
GAS PRINCIPLE
Answer:
General Adaptation Syndrome
-Periods of low intensity or rest after high intensity
-Deload
Question:
ADAPTATION
Answer:
First stage
-recognition, intro to new stress
Question:
-body's alarm 'goes off' and initially moves into decline
Second stage
-resistance stage, body's instinct to survive and overcome kicks in
Final stage
-exhaustion
KARVONEN FORMULA
Answer:
, Question:
HRR x % of intensity + RHR
TARGET HR
Answer:
Question:
[HRR (MHR-RHR) x intensity ] + RHR
PERIODISATION BREAKDOWN
Answer:
MACROCYCLE
-Start to end
PHASES
-more specific portions
MESOCYCLE
-amount of months
MICROCYLE
-amount of weeks
Question:
WRT PHASES
Answer:
AA
Hypertrophy
Power
Strength
Peak maintenance