COACHING TRAINING PRINCIPLES
EXAM GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
~over the course of the year, use training cycles to vary the intensity and volume of
training to help your athletes achieve peak levels of fitness for competition
~you should change the exercises or activities regularly so that you do no overstress a
part of the body
~train by using a variety of activities - Answer-variation principle
~use it or lose it
~when athletes stop training, their hard-won fitness gains disappear, usually faster than
they were gained
~rate of decline depends on length of the training period before detraining, specific
muscle group, and other factors - Answer-reversibility principle
~every athlete is different and responds differently to the same training activities
~value of training depends on the athlete's maturation
~other factors that affect how athletes respond include pretraining condition, genetic
predisposition, gender and race, diet and sleep, environmental factors and motivation -
Answer-individual differences principle
~train, don't strain
~give athletes time to progress
~you want to gently coax your athletes' bodies into superior conditioning
~design games that challenge athletes
~never use training activities as punishment for misbehaviors - Answer-moderation
principle
~the best way to develop physical fitness for your sport is to train the energy systems
and muscles as closely as possible to the way they are used in your sport
~ex. best way to train for running is to run
~the more specific the training to the demands of the sport, the better - Answer-
specificity principle
~athletes must do more what their bodies are used to doing
~when more is demanded, within reason, the body adapts to the increased demand
~you can overload in duration, intensity or both
~ex. if you increase a runner's long-distance run by 5 minutes, you've added an
overload of duration
~ex. if you ask the runner to run her normal distance but in a shorter amount of time,
you've added an overload of intensity - Answer-overload principle
~you must continually increase the physical demands to overload their systems
EXAM GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
~over the course of the year, use training cycles to vary the intensity and volume of
training to help your athletes achieve peak levels of fitness for competition
~you should change the exercises or activities regularly so that you do no overstress a
part of the body
~train by using a variety of activities - Answer-variation principle
~use it or lose it
~when athletes stop training, their hard-won fitness gains disappear, usually faster than
they were gained
~rate of decline depends on length of the training period before detraining, specific
muscle group, and other factors - Answer-reversibility principle
~every athlete is different and responds differently to the same training activities
~value of training depends on the athlete's maturation
~other factors that affect how athletes respond include pretraining condition, genetic
predisposition, gender and race, diet and sleep, environmental factors and motivation -
Answer-individual differences principle
~train, don't strain
~give athletes time to progress
~you want to gently coax your athletes' bodies into superior conditioning
~design games that challenge athletes
~never use training activities as punishment for misbehaviors - Answer-moderation
principle
~the best way to develop physical fitness for your sport is to train the energy systems
and muscles as closely as possible to the way they are used in your sport
~ex. best way to train for running is to run
~the more specific the training to the demands of the sport, the better - Answer-
specificity principle
~athletes must do more what their bodies are used to doing
~when more is demanded, within reason, the body adapts to the increased demand
~you can overload in duration, intensity or both
~ex. if you increase a runner's long-distance run by 5 minutes, you've added an
overload of duration
~ex. if you ask the runner to run her normal distance but in a shorter amount of time,
you've added an overload of intensity - Answer-overload principle
~you must continually increase the physical demands to overload their systems
