NSCA CPSS Chapter 2: Training Load
Model ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
- Primary reason for monitoring athletes - CORRECT ANSWERS
info obtained can guide decisions about future training
Supercompensation - CORRECT ANSWERS performance
enhancement if body is allowed to adapt
Selye's general adaptation syndrome - CORRECT ANSWERS
training stress, acute fatigue response, adaptation, new level of
homeostasis/performance
Fitness-fatigue model - CORRECT ANSWERS model in
which performance is function of positive and negative fitness effects
both fitness and fatigue decay exponentially over time but a different
rates (fatigue decays 2x the rate of fitness)
dose-response effect - CORRECT ANSWERS higher volume
and intensity of training/comp = larger acute fatigue response
training system - CORRECT ANSWERS all factors important
to performance
includes those that
, 1. directly influence system (training/testing, load/fatigue monitoring)
2. support the system (training facilities/equipment)
key factors for successful training system - CORRECT ANSWERS
System aims
Short and long-term planning
Search for continuous improvement
Assessment of progress
Adherence to fundamental aspects of training
Program adjustments
Continual manipulation of program variables on micro and macro
level
External load - CORRECT ANSWERS What athlete has done
(distance and speed of running, kilograms lifted)
Internal load - CORRECT ANSWERS How athlete responds to
given external load, both physiological and perceptual (HR, blood
lactate, RPE)
What drives the training outcome - CORRECT ANSWERS the
internal response to a given external load
What is performance a function of - CORRECT ANSWERS
difference between fitness and fatigue
Model ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
- Primary reason for monitoring athletes - CORRECT ANSWERS
info obtained can guide decisions about future training
Supercompensation - CORRECT ANSWERS performance
enhancement if body is allowed to adapt
Selye's general adaptation syndrome - CORRECT ANSWERS
training stress, acute fatigue response, adaptation, new level of
homeostasis/performance
Fitness-fatigue model - CORRECT ANSWERS model in
which performance is function of positive and negative fitness effects
both fitness and fatigue decay exponentially over time but a different
rates (fatigue decays 2x the rate of fitness)
dose-response effect - CORRECT ANSWERS higher volume
and intensity of training/comp = larger acute fatigue response
training system - CORRECT ANSWERS all factors important
to performance
includes those that
, 1. directly influence system (training/testing, load/fatigue monitoring)
2. support the system (training facilities/equipment)
key factors for successful training system - CORRECT ANSWERS
System aims
Short and long-term planning
Search for continuous improvement
Assessment of progress
Adherence to fundamental aspects of training
Program adjustments
Continual manipulation of program variables on micro and macro
level
External load - CORRECT ANSWERS What athlete has done
(distance and speed of running, kilograms lifted)
Internal load - CORRECT ANSWERS How athlete responds to
given external load, both physiological and perceptual (HR, blood
lactate, RPE)
What drives the training outcome - CORRECT ANSWERS the
internal response to a given external load
What is performance a function of - CORRECT ANSWERS
difference between fitness and fatigue
